__/ [ John Bailo ] on Tuesday 05 September 2006 18:39 \__
> billwg wrote:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>>As Novell has been preaching for a while, that is the best time for people
>>>and enterprises alike to upgrade to GNU/Linux. Vista is said to be
>>>embraceable, if at all, only in 2008/9. And it involves hardware-wise
>>>refurbishment, as well as a hard-drive wipe, i.e. starting from scratch.
>>
>>
>> Well you apparently didn't read the article, royboy! Else you wouldn't
>> come to that conclusion. As to Novell's preaching, that is true, but
>> sadly, for your hopeless cause that is, no one seems to ever listen.
>> Novell's sermon goes unheard, just like your failure to read the
>> article you cite.
>>
>
> Well, look how long it's taken them to get people to dump w2k.
>
> It hasn't happened yet.
>
> And even XP -- the first really stable desktop Windows they every
> released, took almost half a decade to get installed (mostly through
> people buying new machines).
>
> So, if Microsoft and Novell are really at the same position in trying to
> sell Vista or SLED.
(Pardon a bite, but) not quite.
SLED is cheaper than Vista. SLED will run on Windows 2000/XP hardware
(unchanged) whereas Vista is unlikely to. Addionally, SLED is more secure
and it comes with more applications, which saves even more money and makes
deployment quicker.
Best wishes,
Roy
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