From: Peter Sawatzki 

Support etc was included in the offer. I recall the Linux offer was by SuSE.

Peter

In article , paul{at}barkto.com says...
> How can Linux be so expensive?
>
> That's roughly $2000 per seat! Something's not right by an order of
> magnitude.
>
> Paul
>
> "Peter Sawatzki"  wrote in message
> news:MPG.1935e2f09fdb73c1989702{at}news.barkto.com...
> > Bad news for Joe, the city of Munich, Germany will probably (*) NOT
> > switch it's 16000 PCs to Linux: switching to Linux would have cost 33,8
> > M Euro but MS offered their new software for 27,3 M Euro:
> >
> > http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-21.05.03-000/
> > http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,249649,00.html
> >
> > (all german text)
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > (*) not yet a final decision
>
>

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