Slightly OT: Must Linux buy its way onto the desktop?

[Scot L. Harris]

On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 17:05, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Temlakos wrote:
> > Mike McCarty wrote:
> > 
> >> taharka wrote:
> 

> Ok, you want to use Linux at work, and don't want to do any
> work to convince the company it's worthwhile. Ok. For that
> situation, though, I suspect that Solaris is a better deal
> for a company.

> 
> Ok, again, a Sun workstation with Solaris sounds like a better
> overall deal to me. But I now see a point.

You can now run Solaris on most x386/686 systems.  And Sun does make
some nice Opteron systems and very good prices.