Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Aniruddha <mailing_list@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 00:14 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:

> WinXP Home Edition cost 199 USD, Professional is almost impossible to buy 
> today, Vista is 500 dollars. Get your facts straight

That is 150 EUR and who want Vista anyways?. 

> But even so, for that money you get exactly nothing beyond the basic OS. No 
> office package, no programs, nothing
>
> And you certainly don't get support

And what if you only need security patches and could care lees about
office packages, programs etc.

> For the money you pay for SLED, you also get free access to new versions when 
> they're released. Good luck trying to get that from Microsoft (hint: without 
> a massive license agreement, you can forget it)
>
> But if none of this is important to you, you're probably better off with 
> opensuse. Remind me, the free version of Windows is called.....?
>
> -- 

Let me explain my myself. As the owner of an IT company I am always
looking to provide my customers the best (Open Source) solution. I am
absolutely not Windows minded however looking at the figures SLED
becomes very difficult to sell:

Windows XP      7yr support            100,- EUR
Gentoo Linux    unlimited support        0,- EUR 
SLED            7 yr support           329,- EUR

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Aniruddha

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