Yes many believe so, one hardware support person here once said to me on this and I corrected him (don't know if he believed it). *on the cost of sever versions
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 9:36 PM, sunil s <sunils1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Totally wrong > Even Redhat is free (i.e we can use a copy of rhel) > > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 5:16 AM, Saral Sasidharan < > saralsasidha...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hiii >> Today i got a chance to visit a Co-opertive bank to inspect some >> networking there. They are using a SW Perfect Bank which is provided by >> another co-operative firm COSTEC G8 Elankom gardens Vellayambalam . They >> solely is the distributors,HW vendors and trainers . As per Govt policy >> they have to provide free SW platform applications they even has Linux >> version of there application but promote Windows based sw . There servers >> are hosted with Windows 2000 or 2003 server edition costing 54,000 they >> charges 70,000 to 90,000 for there sw Perfect Bank per branch in an estimate >> more than 3 Lakh per bank goes for SW . You all know in co-operative sector >> it's always lover class workers money is dealed and a lot of money are going >> to this section atleast the cost can be halved if linux is promoted. The >> main reason they are avoiding linux stating printer compatability if some of >> our guys can find some good Linux supported dotmatrix printers (80 column as >> well as 136 column) we can mail the GM of the company or personally meet and >> tell him to atleast give customer to choose the OS option. Another reason >> stated was there are server versions of Linux which are not at all free or >> costs near to Windows server edition is this true? >> >> The GM of the company is Mr Saaju Ph No 9447027093. >> >> Hope you all will try to provide some solutions. >> >> Saral >> >> -- >> Hav a nice day >> >> >> > > > > -- http://techplex.wordpress.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
