From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 29 11:59:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAC9A152FC for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 11:59:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from johnmpurser@home.com) Received: from C37259A ([24.9.57.64]) by mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <20000129195912.QLGA26912.mail.rdc1.wa.home.com@C37259A>; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 11:59:12 -0800 Reply-To: From: "John Purser" To: "'Jonathon McKitrick'" , "'freebsd-chat'" Subject: RE: costs for solaris vs windows Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 11:59:05 -0800 Message-ID: <000001bf6a93$4c58fba0$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well the number came directly from the MS marketing department so you know it must be correct right? And in a related article at: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20000129/tc/20000130080.html MS has released the first patch for win2000 THREE WEEKS BEFORE they release the product. Apparently (surprise, surprise) some security holes that needed to be patched. John Purser -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jonathon McKitrick Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 8:25 AM To: freebsd-chat Subject: costs for solaris vs windows In this article: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9911/22/solaris8.ent.idg/index.html it was claimed that "data centers running Windows 2000 will cost one-fifth to one-third of the price of a Unix-based system and will also offer customers significant savings over Unix in terms of TC0." Is this possible? I thought the reason many companies were going back to Unix was because of lower costs? Or is this just referring to commercial Unix? And since when has M$ offered value as one of its selling points? -=> jm <=- "Do not taunt the Happy Fun Ball." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message