On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 00:14 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: > > WinXP Home Edition cost 199 USD, Professional is almost impossible to buy > today, Vista is 500 dollars. Get your facts straight
That is 150 EUR and who want Vista anyways?. > But even so, for that money you get exactly nothing beyond the basic OS. No > office package, no programs, nothing > > And you certainly don't get support And what if you only need security patches and could care lees about office packages, programs etc. > For the money you pay for SLED, you also get free access to new versions when > they're released. Good luck trying to get that from Microsoft (hint: without > a massive license agreement, you can forget it) > > But if none of this is important to you, you're probably better off with > opensuse. Remind me, the free version of Windows is called.....? > > -- Let me explain my myself. As the owner of an IT company I am always looking to provide my customers the best (Open Source) solution. I am absolutely not Windows minded however looking at the figures SLED becomes very difficult to sell: Windows XP 7yr support 100,- EUR Gentoo Linux unlimited support 0,- EUR SLED 7 yr support 329,- EUR -- Regards, Aniruddha Please adhere to the OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
