Re: RHL 9 - concerns

Mike A. Harris wrote:

> You get what you pay for in this world.

That's just it, Mike. For a long time, we've *have* gotten something -- 
a very good something -- for nothing but our time, when it comes to 
linux, specifically Red Hat linux. Many of us *knew* how good of a thing 
we had, and we're missing it already. Just a couple months ago, my 
coworker was telling me that he was convinced that Red Hat would start 
charging for *all* of their linux distributions. I told him I would be 
happy to do it if forced to. It's just that I thought I'd be forking 
over the $80 for the boxed set, and still be getting 3 years of errata. 
I think we all understand Red Hat's position. We've just been spoiled, 
that's all. ;-)

I've not been watching this thread idly, nor purely selfishly. It turns 
out that I'm putting together a proposal at my (Fortune 500) company to 
move about a dozen finite-element analysts off their HP workstations to 
x86 boxes for the front end work and a nice linux cluster for doing all 
the solves. Whether the pre- and post-processors will run Windows XP or 
Red Hat EW, I have yet to see. My job is the proposal, not the purchase. 
I already have my name and number in for a callback on this. When I get 
final numbers put together on a projected TCO, I'll post back to the 
(current) list, and then we can actually tear apart a real straw man...

dk




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