Vincent wrote:
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 06:42, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 07:51 -0500, James Drabb wrote:
First, let me state that I do despise MS, and I am playing devils
advocate. However, let us look at the cost over 5 years for RHPW and MS
Windows XP Home. We need to assume that RH will support RHPW for 5
years and not drop support like RH 9.
RHPW year 1: $50
RHPW year 2: $60 for updates
RHPW year 3: $60 for updates
RHPW year 4: $60 for updates
RHPW year 5: $60 for updates
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$290 over 5 years
MS XP Home year 1: $99
MS XP Home year 2: $0
MS XP Home year 3: $0
MS XP Home year 4: $0
MS XP Home year 5: $0
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$99 over 5 years
Do you see the price difference?
Your math is wrong.
Do the prices for
MS XP Home + Equivalent Developer Tools + Adobe Photoshop + Decent Maths
program + Complete Office suite + ....
Just so you make a fair comparison.
Rui
Don't forget the cost of certain source code which I hear they now let
you peek at for around $30,000 =)
On a serious note though, isn't Gimp and Open Office available for
windows also? Those costs could be cut.
Possibly, but would not at least WinXP Pro or Win2003 Server be more
comparable to what you would get with RHPW.
Mike
