On Saturday 09 April 2005 05:08 pm, Colin Carter wrote:
On Sunday 10 April 2005 07:36, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 13:43, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 16:09, 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 $600.
Then our company went to Dell and ordered a stack of new naked PCs - no O.S. installed. But, and here's the catch, Dell are in a contract with M$ that no machine will leave their premises without XP. Outcome: although we had paid for XP we had to pay for it again on each new PC. Beat that for money grubbing! Happy days now that I'm off the bottle.
Hmmm. your purchasing agent got railroaded.. http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/compare.aspx/desktops_n?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd -- _____________________________________ John Andersen