You get what you pay for in this world.
That's just it, Mike. For a long time, we've *have* gotten something -- a very good something -- for nothing but our time, when it comes to linux, specifically Red Hat linux. Many of us *knew* how good of a thing we had, and we're missing it already. Just a couple months ago, my coworker was telling me that he was convinced that Red Hat would start charging for *all* of their linux distributions. I told him I would be happy to do it if forced to. It's just that I thought I'd be forking over the $80 for the boxed set, and still be getting 3 years of errata. I think we all understand Red Hat's position. We've just been spoiled, that's all. ;-)
I've not been watching this thread idly, nor purely selfishly. It turns out that I'm putting together a proposal at my (Fortune 500) company to move about a dozen finite-element analysts off their HP workstations to x86 boxes for the front end work and a nice linux cluster for doing all the solves. Whether the pre- and post-processors will run Windows XP or Red Hat EW, I have yet to see. My job is the proposal, not the purchase. I already have my name and number in for a callback on this. When I get final numbers put together on a projected TCO, I'll post back to the (current) list, and then we can actually tear apart a real straw man...
dk
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