On Friday 08 April 2005 00:18, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 00:09 +0100, Stephen Boddy wrote:
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 20:46, John Andersen wrote:
Its SO cheap compared to windows (any flavor).
I'm going to be controversial here and disagree with you. Time between Windows XP and Longhorn is going to be roughly 5 years at least. Price of an upgrade will be somewhere in the range of $125 dollars. In that time SuSE will have released ten releases (6 month release cycle). At a cost of $60 for each upgrade you're looking at $600.
I appreciate the significant differences between a Windows release and a SuSE release, and I do like SuSE, but I do wonder about this continuous upgrade path. If anything I'd be happier with a yearly release on the grounds of actually having the OS installed for a reasonable amount of time.
BTW I'm not a Yank, just using dollars coz it was simple math ;-) -- Steve Boddy
The main difference is that of you have 10 PC's to update it blows that theory out of the water. 10 X $125 = $1250 Vs $600. Keep in mind you only have to buy one copy of SuSE Vs 10 of windows and you don't get all of the other software updates as well. Last I knew the windows update didn't include the office updates.
I only have 2 computers (3 soon). I guess I'll have to go back to Windows to save money... NOT! WRT other software I did acknowledge that the two were different. But then SuSE don't write everything on their release. M$ does. Well OK, they rehash a load of stuff they bought-out, and then write lots of new bugs to add to the mix. :-D -- Steve Boddy