'urro We quite often buy gear sans-MS liscence, but not compaq gear..
Suppliers I've brought gear from without a licence.. BCL, Slipstream computers, Comaint Systems, Corporate Consumables. Dave L. has offered Egressive as well.. I agree with Dave about going with locally assembled 'clones', upgradability and bang for your buck is often quite a bit better than with 'brand name' gear. Cheers, Chris Hellyar. Selwyn District Council Phones: X 831 (03)324 5831 (021) 350 603 <This message has not been inspected by the Chief Censors office> -----Original Message----- From: Julian Carver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 10 May 2002 11:20 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: licentiousness Folks, We're just in the process of buying some new hardware. The people we're using have advocated Compaq gear, and we're keen to go with what they're offering. We're intending to use Red Hat on the server, desktop & laptop. The problem is that on the laptop & desktop lines they can't unbundle the Windows OS, and there's no way we can prevent money going to Microsoft. This just isn't acceptable to me. Has anyone else come up against this? What vendors are there that are free of this lockin? Julian ---------------------------------------------------- Seradigm - Knowledge Management Julian Carver [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph (03) 332 2147 cell 021 684 147 www.seradigm.com ---------------------------------------------------- ###################################################################### The contents of this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author, and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Selwyn District Council ######################################################################
