From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 28 8:25:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0611714BF1 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 08:25:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) for chat@freebsd.org id 12EECk-000JMH-00; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:25:02 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA66889 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:25:02 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:25:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: freebsd-chat Subject: costs for solaris vs windows Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In this article: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9911/22/solaris8.ent.idg/index.html it was claimed that "data centers running Windows 2000 will cost one-fifth to one-third of the price of a Unix-based system and will also offer customers significant savings over Unix in terms of TC0." Is this possible? I thought the reason many companies were going back to Unix was because of lower costs? Or is this just referring to commercial Unix? And since when has M$ offered value as one of its selling points? -=> jm <=- "Do not taunt the Happy Fun Ball." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message