"Fred A. Miller" wrote:
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> http://www.pcworld.com/cgi-bin/pcwtoday?ID=10104
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Great article.
IDG.NET also published a article by Frank Hayes that parroted the
Microsoft party line about NT being as cheap as Linux to install.
I did a cost summary of the upgrade to Win95 and NT on the workstations
and servers where I work, not counting replacing 3rd party software that
the "upgrades" to the M$ OS requires because it broke them.
When the upgrade from WFW 3.11 was completed we had replaced all of our
386 and 486 machines with 586 P75's and higher. It took three years.
We didn't include CDROMs or SOUND cards and the boxes averaged $1,500.
Now, M$ is asking us to begin cycle of "upgrading" to machines that have
128MB of RAM and 10GB of HD and a fast video. Assuming the same avg
cost of $1,500 the NT 2000 "solution" will cost about $510,000 including
hardware and license costs.
Because Linux can use our P266 machines with 32 and 64MB of RAM just
fine, and the 4.3 Bigfoots are also more than enough, ONE SuSE will do
the whole thing for $50.
According to Frank, $510,000 is about the same as $50. And my 95 yr old
mother-in-law is as beautiful as Cindy Lawford.
Even if we give each workstation a complete distro so they can have the
manual, which is well worth the cost, the total cost is only $10,000
which is still WAY BELOW the NT "solution".
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