[K12OSN] ummmm...RHPWS?

[Terrell Prude', Jr.]

Access Systems wrote:

>On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, David Sokolowsky wrote:
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>>Access Systems wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, anthony baldwin wrote:
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>>>>Curioser and curioser...
>>>>Didn't RH say no more personal desktop OS?
>>>>What's this then?
>>>>http://www.redhat.com/software/workstation/
>>>>RH Professional Workstation.
>>>>RH Enterprise Linux gets Personal...
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>>>$179 !!!!!!!!!!  about 4 times what it used to cost on the store shelves
>>>and what do you get for that extra,  not a single thing more that RH9
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>>Looks to be only $49.94 at Staples.com
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>staples still had RH9 on the shelves for $49 when I was there a couple
>days ago.....???????
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>Bob
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I saw that at the Staples out here as well (Washington, DC area).  The 
only downer that I can see is that it still has OO.o 1.0.3 and not the 
1.1 version w/ the PDF exportability and somewhat better filters.

But, since we're all educational folks, we can get any version of RHEL 
(AS or WS) for no more than $50 anyway, so we still have our very 
inexpensive platform for K12LTSP available to us.  Keeping this in 
perspective, to get that same functionality w/ MS, you need to buy 
BackOffice, which costs several thousands of dollars up front and 
several tens of thousands for ongoing support.  Let's not forget that.

--TP