On Tuesday 27 March 2001 03:22 pm, you wrote:
You state that at $69.95, SuSE 7.1 is less expensive than the Microsoft offerings. I agree. Then you lose me. You say yourself that the cost per user of W2K and Office2K is about $800. That's per user, yes ? Your SuSE 7.1 media cost you about $70, and is valid for your entire enterprise. So, in an office of, for example, 100 users, my fees for using SuSE on every machine these users have is about $70. Those same people would cost me about $80,000 in MS Tax alone, before I even hire people to set the machines up for my users. That $80,000 buys a lot of someone's time to install the software. You make no mention of the outrageous pricing for the W2K server offerings. Again, every one of my servers is covered by my $70. And with companies like Compaq, HP and IBM standing up for Linux, you know it is going to work on their hardware, and it does. While in general I agree with you, I think you're forgetting that you need to retrain all your secretaries and people who aren't Unix literate. Kevin Breit