Re: RHL 9 - concerns
"Taylor, ForrestX" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.release.phoebe |
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Gerald Henriksen wrote: > How much longer are they going to want linux though if: > > a) Linux is more expensive. Take a company looking at deploying > either Linux or Windows XP to the desktop, for a 4 year period. While > these companies expect to upgrade the applications over that 4 year > period they would prefer to keep OS changes to a minimum (ideally just > security updates and maybe drivers for new hardware if needed). They > > Microsoft Windows XP: $300. You forgot a few things here: Microsoft Office XP: $579 McAfee Antivirus: $120 (60 + (3*20)) McAfee Personal Firewall: $70 (40 + (3*10)) and so forth... As you can see, just Office and Windows XP exceed your worst-case senario for WS. > > Red Hat Enterprise WS: $480 (300+(3*60) * > $720 (300+300+(2*60) ** Forrest -- -- Phoebe-list mailing list [email protected] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list