From: "Paul Ranson" 

I guess they have to make their money somewhere. Still looks extremely
steep. And a poke in the eye to the Open Source contributors.

Apart from all the fulminating if MS cannot compete with that then
something is wrong with the market.

Paul

"Peter Sawatzki"  wrote in message
news:MPG.1937409aae6db3b8989707{at}news.barkto.com...
> 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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