Shawn wrote:
On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 20:37, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:I don't think you're being fair at all. The product you get for $179 a year from Red Hat (Advanced Server, IIRC) does not compete with a $200 copy of Windows XP Personal. Instead, it competes with a $1,000 copy of Windows XP Server (with 5 clients, no database, no email, no messaging...) or a $3,000 copy of Windows with a database and messaging. So break-even point is either 5.5 years, or up to 16 years depending on configuration.
Where in there did I say *ANYTHING* about a server edition of Windows or Linux? Nowhere. I thought we were discussing the *WORKSTATION* edition of RedHat, yes? Geez.
But our point is RHEL-WS is more of a server than the Microsoft WS products. Look more closely at what you get.
-Thomas
