On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 12:14, Bennett, Patrick wrote: > >Then add Office 2003 to that at $369 for the full version: > >http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=539386 > > > >$199 + $369 = $568 > > Well, to make it *really* fair you can't count Office in the price > calculations since OpenOffice is available for Windows as well. > The same could be said for a fair number of packages that are being > considered part of the Linux bundle/price-advantage comparison. If we're talking about the home user or the corporate desktop then you will need to use MS Office and all the other related commercial apps & utilities. Very few home users will be willing to go d/l OpenOffice and Mozilla and the dozens of other things they'd need and corporations aren't going to run anything that they would have to manage/maintain themselves. The fact of the matter is that RHEL is a tremendous hit with large businesses (and a great majority of small-to-mid sized ones, too). It's just what they want and expect from an OS plus they get much more than if they go with MS or, say, Solaris. -- Akebono vs Godzilla! Coming soon to a theater near you.
