Well, I was going to ask ...

[Net Llama!]

On 05/06/04 18:21, Collins wrote:
> On Wed, 05 May 2004 09:35:40 +1000
> James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Net Llama! wrote:
>>
>>>On 05/04/04 15:15, Michael Hipp wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>... what you all thought of Red Hat's Desktop Linux announcement. But 
>>>>then I looked at the pricing plan. So I sez to myself "Never mind".
>>>
>>>
>>>Yea, it looks like a hastily put together marketing blitz.
>>>
>>
>>Umm the pricing is almost the same as M$ product or did I misread ? 
>>$2500 for 10 seats?
>>
> 
> 
> Well, I've said for years that RedHat was the M$ of linux distros. I'm too spoiled running a non-profit distro.
> 

At the same time Redhat makes the argument that OSS has value.  You're 
paying for quality software that is more scalable & stable than M$ 
offerings.

The fact that Redhat feels that they can charge such prices and be 
profitable really says alot about how far Linux has come in the 
enterprise.


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