-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Our acquainted friend 'Joachim Schrod' enlightened us thusly:
> I think that's more the issue. Any change in processes costs. And > that cost must be amortized over the amount of sold systems. Since > we will probably have fewer Linux systems, the price per unit is > higher. Well, IMO the problem is more complicated than this. Please keep in mind that the Microsoft licenses are bought by Dell on bulk basis. This means that all agreements do not depend on the amount of actual sold units but the one fixed in such agreement. Thus according to the accounting standards those costs might be taken into account as either fix or variable. Depending on such costs strategy the prise for windows units would have to rise or be kept unchanged. I think the first one is more probable. Finally IMO we'll be lucky if we get the Linux units at the same price as the units delivered with Vista. But for my part I'd pay the price if the hardware suits my needs. thx Jan - -- /NoCTRL (GNU/)Linux registered user # 437835 (goto: http://counter.li.org/) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF5UyGN8oPNJi4M6IRAo0WAJ9zL/x224BLexiAZ/3FZzQ5UZZAqwCdH12O imq6CJNi6RdFGvK4/KXLnfQ= =m7v5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
