Now there's the best argument I've heard for Linux-on-Desktop yet. I wish the competing "My TCO beats your TCO" studies would consider all these factors.
So, in the end, even when M$ is free, it's still to expensive! On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 15:16, Achilleus Papadopoulos wrote: > When I wrote my first post I meant MS pricing, to be > honest ;-) > You are right, I didn't know about MS special pricing > for NPOs. > Nevertheless, the persistent problem with MS is that > we are running 3-4 different versions of Windows (98SE > trough XP) and 3 different versions of Outlook. Also, > on the hardware side, we have PCs at 500MHz w/ 128MB > RAM up to 1.7GHz w/ 512MB RAM. This HW-SW diversity is > a huge pain in the arse to handle, especially if your > duties are to do network admin, email admin, helpdesk, > and trainer all at once! Hey guys, I am not an > octopus, and IÂm [EMAIL PROTECTED] tired of running after Windoze > crashes, viruses, users toying with Control Panel > settings and messing up, and other $h!t like that! I > think that migrating our operating environment to > Linux could streamline and leverage our HW/SW > diversity and compensate for otherwise obsolete HW if > we were going to streamline a Windows environment for > all users. This amounts to that when people donate a > newer PC we wouldnÂt trash an older WIN98 box as to > have more, letÂs say, WIN2K boxes so we can streamline > our operating environment. We would rather derive a > least common denominator of Linux for all PCs and thus > instead of retiring systems we would be adding more > PCs = more users. Moreover, being the fascist bastard > that I am (oh yes, the Stallmanesque way), I have > decided that we are going to support OSS trough its > use because it is just as good a cause as helping > troubled youth find their way to a better life Thanks > to everyone that has posted so far I will greatly > appreciate your further input. > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- |============================================| | James Fogg | | | | JDFogg Technology Consulting | | "Real Experience Providing Real Solutions" | | 603-724-2243 | |============================================| _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
