User Linux

[Joe Klemmer]

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 12:14, Bennett, Patrick wrote:

> >Then add Office 2003 to that at $369 for the full version:
> >http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=539386
> >
> >$199 + $369 = $568  
> 
> Well, to make it *really* fair you can't count Office in the price
> calculations since OpenOffice is available for Windows as well.
> The same could be said for a fair number of packages that are being
> considered part of the Linux bundle/price-advantage comparison.

	If we're talking about the home user or the corporate desktop then you
will need to use MS Office and all the other related commercial apps &
utilities.  Very few home users will be willing to go d/l OpenOffice and
Mozilla and the dozens of other things they'd need and corporations
aren't going to run anything that they would have to manage/maintain
themselves.  The fact of the matter is that RHEL is a tremendous hit
with large businesses (and a great majority of small-to-mid sized ones,
too).  It's just what they want and expect from an OS plus they get much
more than if they go with MS or, say, Solaris.

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