From: "Geo" 

"Don Hills"  wrote in message
news:vG99DtgaXWiM092yn{at}attglobal.net...

> Sell software by charging the many customers you still have way more than
> the software is worth. Microsoft have always charged as much as they could
> possibly get away with. Price is their weapon of last resort, not their
> first. Why should they change now?

When I moved to NT, Netware was $2500 for 25 user server and NT was $600
with no copy protection headaches, now Windows Server 2003 25 user is $3700
and close to double that if you want to do email.
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=913972

Microsoft used to be the good guys, today, I wouldn't use anything MS if I
have a halfway decent second choice. Too expensive, too restrictive, too
risky due to copy protection/activation.

Geo.

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