Ronald J. Hall wrote:
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 01:32 am, M.Schild wrote: -> ->> What I don't understand is why there isn't a backlash from cities around ->> the world? I mean, if I was the mayor/gov. of a city and saw MS giving 60 ->> percent discounts to another place, you can be sure I'd be demanding the ->> same for my fair 'burg... :-) -> -> ->That's also what I thought and what other cities will do though that sort of ->mentality would make me choose Linux ->Maryse
I guess I'm cruel (compared to MS? Heh!) but if I were the mayor and negotiating with MS I'd hold out till they offered that huge discount, and then once they were crawling, I'd go with Linux anyways. ;-)
Actually, this "might" be of benefit to us.
If Paris went with a mandrake solution, it would probably be based on 9.2 or 10, and they would definately not go for it if it was only supported for 1.5 years.. so Mandrake might expand support for whichever they go for.. after all, they will have to create the updates and stuff anyway, might as well provide them to us as well.
Then again, for that kind of job, they will probably make a cut down simplified install of mdk, so it might not make any difference to us at all. :-(
-- rgds
Frank
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