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On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 11:14, Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 10:43, Derek Neighbors wrote:
>=20
> > Cost to the smallest of fish is a very real thing. You can sway a very
> > small business on cost as its very real to their bottom line.
> ---
> There are the initial costs and the setup costs and the maintenance
> costs - I am not totally convinced that on a 5 user license (the small
> business), that there is any great cost differences between Linux (even
> GNU/Debian) and Win2K Server on the same hardware. Now if you add more
> users, mail server or other services beyond that which is supplied by
> Win2K Server (wins/dhcp/dns/file & print services for win-mac clients),
> you might be able to project some daylight into the cost comparison.
My bad. I am considering small business 5 to 20 people. Generally this
breaks most of the normal 1 to 5 user license deals software vendors
bait companies with. Also after 5 users generally a mail solution
starts to become necessary.
If you are talking pretty much file and print services its pretty even,
but that just speaks to my point that selling on price is a weak move
anyhow. :)
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Derek Neighbors
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