On Thursday 01 March 2007 08:32, Jan Tiggy wrote:
Robert Smits schrieb:
The down side of that is SLED with a $50/year price tag will quickly outpace the cost of XP.
Nonsense, John. Windows Vista costs far more to buy and to use than SuSE SLED.
First of all he wrote XP not VISTA.
- Windows XP, OEM price 100$ incl. support till 2014.
For which you get nothing but the OS and a few very rudimentary application programs. Start adding in all the commercial applications you will use before coming up with a total cost of acquisition.
- SLED 10, price 250 $ incl. support 5 years.
Includes a huge portfolio of high-quality applications. I know that not every application area is covered by FOSS software, but all the common, business-oriented "productivity" applications are there plus a formidable range of niche applications.
Same Hardware!
So please feel free to explain a not-versed computer user why he/she should buy SLED!
Total cost of acquisition and ownership are far less for the large majority of users. That and the usual superior security and performance characteristics exhibited by Linux and its application base.
Now concerning Vista. Do you really think that KDE 4 with compiz or a full featured Beryl will run efficient on a average Laptop e.g. Acer Aspire 3003 WLMI?
IMO you compare apples and oranges.
And you, as well.
But that's not the point. The point is that SLED is way to expensive for the consumer market. But has the stability which SUSE lacks.
SLED clearly is not meant for "consumer" (meaning non-business, home users, I gather) uses. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org