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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!ais.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!208.192.224.3!news.interactive.net!newonyx.interactive.net!not-for-mail From: <ritz@interactive.spamthis.net> Subject: Re: New BSDI Pricing Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Nntp-Posting-User: ritz Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: IBS Interactive, Inc. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <E91E12.FHG@news.interactive.net> References: <E8ssJ8.Mqr@news.interactive.net> <Pine.LNX.3.96.970419143119.789C-100000@reflections.eng.mindspring.net> <5jhap8$4ac@news-central.tiac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: 861707844/19361 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: newonyx.interactive.net Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:17:25 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6720 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39512 In comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.com> wrote: :P~Todd Graham Lewis (tlewis@mindspring.com) wrote: :P~: The phrases "rock" and "hard place" come to mind. If they drop their :P~: prices too low, the moronic übercorporate types will assume "$1k per :P~: license? It must be crappy". If they raise them too high, clueful types :P~: will ask "Is BSDI really worth $3k/per box more than FreeBSD or Linux?" :P~: and usually answer "no". :P~Worse than that, the beancounters may insist on Windows NT as a webserver. Which is precisely what's happening. We do internet-related work for about 10-15 Fortune 500 companies and they ALL are going to use NT as their "internet server" platform except for 2 places. Those "rogues" are insisting on Sun-based and RS6000 solutions. When I mentioned using BSDI and that the pricing was being changed, I only got a few chuckles. So much for the "if it costs alot, the corporate types will buy it" argument. Chris -- Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: ritz@interactive.net | finger/mail info@interactive.net OR IBS Interactive, Inc. | http://www.interactive.net/