On 3/30/07, -ray <ray at ops.selu.edu> wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Andrew Baudouin wrote: > > > Not that I like it, but if it is indeed true that Dells w/ Linux cost > more > > than identical Windows configurations, then that can be directly traced > back > > It doesn't make sense, hardware is hardware. But yes I have bought the XP > box before after looking at the Dell N-series box, cause the XP box was > either $100 cheaper or came with a free 17" LCD. When it came in, i just > put linux on it.
Plus you now have an XP license that you can sell for 70 bucks or something. > I wouldn't be surprised if MS makes all of its money off of corporate and > > education licensing and has since written off the consumer business. > > Maybe the corporate side, but they don't make any money from education. > Education pricing, i can get Win2k3 server R2 standard, 5 cal, for about > $120. Same thing at cdw.com costs $960. It certainly does help our > budget, but something just seems wrong about it. Most vendors give a > 10%-45% edu discount. MS gives us an 88% discount. Go figure. I was referring to Microsoft Campus licensing on the education side (WHICH WE KNOW SELU DOESN'T PARTICIPATE IN... ;))... not individual licensing plans for Joe I.T. guy looking to buy 5 CALs. On the corporate side, there is MSDN, Software Assurance (yikes) and of course the huge per-seat costs for Exchange and Windows AD. ray > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org > Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University > IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20070330/1c029f0d/attachment-0001.html
