Long-term support and backport risk

Long-term support and backport risk

Posted Jun 23, 2007 17:20 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Long-term support and backport risk by giraffedata
Parent article: Long-term support and backport risk

have you looked at the redhat prices?

I'll admit that I haven't looked at them recently, but the last time I did they were chaging ~$1500/machine, which is about the same price that sun and others charge for the propriatary Unix, and above many of the microsoft license costs.

if you use the 'enterprise' pricing from linux vendors then it's fairly easy to cook the books to show that linux has a higher TCO then windows (you need to choose hardware and models that minimize the fact that linux is more efficant and find manpower costs that show that windows admins get paid less then unix admins, but you are close enough to make it work)

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