Chris Rowson wrote: > If I had 10 servers I wouldn't pay $27,500 for email/telephone support > covering only the operating system. > I suspect that if you knew what the inside of a datacentre looked like, you'd feel differently
The sad fact of the matter is that Windows is not an expensive system by the time its supported, and Linux is not the cheapest if you buy from a vendor that's likely to stay in business (or that isn't just the guy down the road hoping he's dealing with someone that needs a bit of admin help and no more).. 20 years ago or so (when anyone gave a monkeys about SGI, Sequent, Data General etc) the joke was - and still is - Open (Wallet) Standards. These days things HAVE changed - if you want an 'enterprise' OS with cheap support, you buy from Sun. Whether ANY of these companies have a support offering that is worth the money is a different matter, but if you're going to get uppity about paying a market rate for support, then just remember that the alternative is straightforward - you pay in cash for the software up front. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
