At 01:54 PM 7/7/2000 -0700, EXT-Moore, Kirk W wrote:
The point is.... that M$ is bad software... or are the users trying to tweak the software....
I personally have my kids on a windows 98 machine... they beat on that machine... they download things from the net, they get tons of trash... and
Your luck , I do a format / install every 4 months , otherwise the BSOD gets on your nerves. My Kids install a ton of games too. After a couple of moths of install/uninstall it gets realy flakey. the system still runs good. I keep threaten to put them on Linux... but I am afraid that they will learn the "rm -r * /" command. :) outch that realy is a dangerous threat , one day they may take you up on it and realy use the rm -r * and you will be back to M$ all over agien <grin>
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---------- From: Jack Barnett[SMTP:jbarnett@axil.netmate.com] Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 1:34 PM To: Thomas, Gregory (NBC, KNBC); SuSE English Subject: Re: [SLE] Fundamental differences
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Well, for the desktop Win2k only costs ~$150 for an upgrade
Yes, but you can't upgrade from 95/98 to W2k atleast that is what my MS sales consultant told me. First you must own WinNT4.0 easily from $200-$1000 for the full version. To upgrade to aw2k with a 5 client
license
it is $359.00 or $89.95 "competive" upgrade version (which requires a full version of WinNT 4.0).
Microsoft AW2k is currently going for $3,999.00 for 25 clients.
and Win95, etc.
Win95/98 can be had for ~$80 a peice.
Ok, so I was off a litte. But my point was being a Linux workstation and/or server is a lot more cheaper than any MS product and offers just as good, if not better stability.
are included in the upgrade path. Before I dropped MS products from my desktop completely I only used NT. The unsupported apps and hardware were a minor inconvenience compared to the benefits of the much greater stability of NT. But now I use an even more stable OS at home.
Everyone complains about MS spreading FUD but 1) above is quite abit of FUD.
It is not FUD, it is was a mistake on my part. 1) ok so they aren't THAT costly. 2) but Linux is STILL cheaper
Greg
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