Andrew Wafaa wrote: > The cost of SLED10 will be $50.00 same as NLD9, according to Novell's > launch. Unfortunately Novell don't take exchange rates into account, > which basically means that it will cost us around £50.00. I am > waiting for the full SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 price list to confirm.
What does the user get for their $50/£50? If I want to perform OEM installs, what is the deal there? (NLD9 answers are fine, or pointers to where I can find this out myself.) > Last I heard with Vista, there will be no OEM installs. Once you buy > a PC from HP/Dell/etc. you will need to fork out £100.00 plus for the OS. Yeah, I heard that too. I guess that the number of people buying OEM disks for non-OEM purposes lead to this. £100 is cheap for a non-OEM MS OS, isn't it? (Overvalued, yes, but still cheap :-) I would *love* MS to really clamp down on misuse of OEM licences (and piracy for that matter). Too many people get XP and MS Office "free" to make a fair comparison with Linux/OOo/etc. In all the comparisons I've seen of Vista and Linux w/XGL (eg SLED) recently they've all seemed to miss the point that Linux has a hell of a lot of applications that are extras (and expensive extras at that) on Vista. -- Mark Rogers More Solutions Ltd :: 0845 45 89 555 _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
