Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3397 mails)

[Stephen Boddy <stephen.boddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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