-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 31 May 2002 9:29 pm, shane wrote:
> actually, it gets worse, they bought 30 win 98 copys to install, then > found it was dog slow on those machines, bought new machines. > > win 98 at $65 a pop times 30 = $1950 > 30 new machines to run said software = $33000 > being smart enough to know linux means multiple installs from one > purchased cd = priceless One of the machines I'm currently using is one of 40 from a project which had some sort of customised configuration of Windows 2000. When the project ended and the machines reverted to the general pool it turned out that the 'company build' of Windows 95 (!!) wouldn't install on them. So they were lying in a corner, unused; I'd say easily £60,000 worth of kit (then high-end Dell machines). Now, if they installed Mandrake 8.2 they could have them all working for about 30 minutes per machine for no cost except labour; all the machines are identical and mine installed straight off from the box with everything recognised and working. StarOffice, Evolution and Konqueror would reproduce the 'standard desktop'. (Of course, much of this is down to politics and dogmatism - the IS people justifying themselves by having a slightly customised version of Windows, jealously guarded and only installable from password-protected shares after fussing around with boot floppies, to stop people installing it themselves and rendering their job irrelevant). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8+JDdCv59vFiSU4YRAqqpAJ9EYDrCUxw8pOaG1OoB3plgxlqfFACfceVH RGQjJfD5X9bTEbnaNr573mE= =mFn7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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