"Post, Mark K" wrote:
> The distribution itself is not particularly expensive. The bundled support
> that SuSE requires to purchase the software is $11,000 (US) per engine for
> the 31-bit and $14,000 per engine for 64-bit systems.
>
> Mark Post
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 1:50 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: reasons why management don't want linux
>
>
> > > less software costs (one copy per engine vs one copy each for each
> boxes) then
> > > most other platforms.
> >
> > software costs lower. How many copies of Red Hat PC boxed set can
> you buy
> > for a VM license ;)
>
> How much is a SuSe Linux/390 distribution these days? A German user
> told me yesterday that the cost is very far from insignificant.
Note that Alan originally asked for the number of "Red Hat PC (!!)
boxed sets" that one could buy, and this was then magically turned
into a discussion on the cost of buying a Suse Linux/390 combined
software + support package, which is quite a different thing,
and totally irrelevant for the comparison that Alan was making.
PC linux boxed sets are available from Red Hat, Suse, and others
at roughly $100.
--
Willem Konynenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas
that could provoke such a question -- Charles Babbage
