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From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: New BSDI Pricing
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: 22 Apr 1997 03:20:08 GMT
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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Todd Graham Lewis (tlewis@mindspring.com) wrote:
: The phrases "rock" and "hard place" come to mind. If they drop their
: prices too low, the moronic übercorporate types will assume "$1k per
: license? It must be crappy". If they raise them too high, clueful types
: will ask "Is BSDI really worth $3k/per box more than FreeBSD or Linux?"
: and usually answer "no".
Worse than that, the beancounters may insist on Windows NT as a webserver.
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Rick Kelly rmk@tencats.rmkhome.com rmk@rmkhome.com
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