On Thursday 01 March 2007 04:11:18 am James Knott wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Wednesday 28 February 2007, Mike McMullin wrote:
Well I would hope so. After all, we here in opensuse land wring the bugs out of that codebase for them. Then they turn around and shrink wrap it with the same support options you get on the web for free.
I was under the (mis)impression that SLED10 patches were only good for the time that you are paying support.
Thats exactly what I meant to say. You get the same patches that are free for opensuse, but you only get them for sled if you pay.
After the second or third year, sled is way more expensive than XP.
I guess you've never worked in computer support in the corporate world. Companies often buy IT support. The question becomes what do they get for that money?
Jack. We get Jack. I just finished my budget modifications for the '07/08 fiscal year (starting July 1, 2007) and i have $1,305,400 in software maintenance costs. None of it is for OS support and only $50,000 is going to Microsoft for MSDN subscriptions. I am trying to think of more than one vendor on my list who actually provides anything worthwhile for that maintenance and I can't. Unfortunately, the powers that be require me to spend the money. I had to laugh the other day. I heard another departmen is going to the board (bosses) for another $3M for next year for a vendor-developed system that has been five years in the making and isn't even fully operational yet. I did my system in house, which has far more functionality, took just a little over five years from inception to production, and it only cost $950,000. Oh, and I'm now directing my staff to start testing release 9 since January 2, when we turned it on. On topic, however, our Dell and Gateway "servers" are having an issue right now. We've got three of them "down" because of some virus that "keeps reinstalling itself." These are mixed Windows 2000 and 2003 workstations. I simply laughed to the management guys over in the server group and told them to upgrade to SLES. :) -- kai Free Compean and Ramos http://www.grassfire.org/142/petition.asp http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org