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On Friday 09 April 2004 04:49 pm, Steven Buehler wrote:
> A new copy of Windows XP Professional is $269.99 at Amazon.com (the
> upgrade version is $179.99).
>
> And if it comes with OpenOffice, consider that you saved yourself the
> $412.99 it would cost you on Amazon.com for a new copy of Office 2003
> Professional (which, by the way includes neither FrontPage '03, which
> costs another $165.99, nor OneNote, which costs an additional $167.99).
>
> And Micro$chmuck thinks they have a better ROI? Which is better ROI --
> $1,088 (which would be the cost of the above plus 7% Sales Tax) or $45?
Even full fledge Corporate RedHat with all support is much cheaper.
The worst part is that they are trying to say that it's easier to upgrade
and maintain windows over Linux. Of course we all know that windows patches
can safely be made on production machines without fear of crashing it.
Microschmuck is a good name : ) hehe.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Steve
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 1:01 PM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Hardware firewall
>
> On Friday 09 April 2004 10:46 am, Steven Buehler wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Levi Bard wrote:
> > > > To get the CD is about $45 and takes about 15 min to install.
> > >
> > > Wow, it used to be a lot less. When did it get so expensive?
> >
> > That's still cheap compared to a new copy of Windows.
> >
> > SWB
>
> $40 plus shipping!
- --
Steve
"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
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