On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 00:14 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
WinXP Home Edition cost 199 USD, Professional is almost impossible to buy today, Vista is 500 dollars. Get your facts straight
That is 150 EUR and who want Vista anyways?.
But even so, for that money you get exactly nothing beyond the basic OS. No office package, no programs, nothing
And you certainly don't get support
And what if you only need security patches and could care lees about office packages, programs etc.
For the money you pay for SLED, you also get free access to new versions when they're released. Good luck trying to get that from Microsoft (hint: without a massive license agreement, you can forget it)
But if none of this is important to you, you're probably better off with opensuse. Remind me, the free version of Windows is called.....?
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Let me explain my myself. As the owner of an IT company I am always looking to provide my customers the best (Open Source) solution. I am absolutely not Windows minded however looking at the figures SLED becomes very difficult to sell: Windows XP 7yr support 100,- EUR Gentoo Linux unlimited support 0,- EUR SLED 7 yr support 329,- EUR -- Regards, Aniruddha Please adhere to the OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org