[rescue] OT: Linux and USB on Intel

[Lionel Peterson]

Sorry - old topic/response...

--- Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:

> Although, with Redhat now doing their "Enterprise Linux" push,
> they're not realizing that they're killing the price-advantage versus
> Windows. They want $179 for the "Basic Edition", which includes one
> year of updates - and then another $200/year (I think) for updates
> after that.

Don't forget that you pay for each client hanging off a Windows server
- there are no similar per-user license fees w/RedHat/Linux...

You have to license the server (Win2K w/5 client licenses is $799), the
client (WinXP Pro aprox. $200 bundled price), making a five-user, one
server configuration cost $1,799 *plus* the cost of the hardware. ;^)

RedHat at $179 for each client (Enterprise WS),and $359 for each server
(Enterprise ES) - is $1,254, a 30% initial cost savings, and additional
desktops are $179/ea. Now, you don't need supported OS for a desktop
(it IS a free OS after all), and if you go with the free downlaod OS
for your clients, it has a savings of almost 80%...

Paying 110% of purchase price for additional support seems "odd", but
your numbers seem to match my memory (added offerings with maint.
contract, IIRC)...


=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

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