Let's see if I can figure this out again. This is a cost analysis over four years for a small business with three computers.
Windows: $600 ($100 every two years, buying every retail upgrade, for three PC's)
Join the developers network (MSDN). That will costs me $900 this year - they have just put it up. Add Borland Builder at $2000 per upgrade. It's all just money down the drain, but I have to pay it to stay in business.
SuSE Linux: $720 ($60 [upgrade + S&H] three times a year)
Both have StarOffice, so both do not need any more commerical software to work in a basic office.
There is just no comparison. I may well scrap MSDN this year as I do not want to pay the 40% increase and I don't want their compilers even if they are throwing them in 'for free', so I will have plenty of money spare to pay for the convenience of the latest SUSE disk set. -- Lester Caine ----------------------------- L.S.Caine Electronic Services