rednight Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 Windows Vista Ultimate, $399; Windows Vista Business, $299; Windows Vista Home Premium, $239; Windows Vista Home Basic, $199. Linux $0.00 Mac OS X 10.4.6 (Single User) $129.00 Family Pack (5 license) $199.00 Darwin $0.00 OpenDarwin $0.00 NetBSD $0.00 OpenBSD $0.00 FreeBSD $0.00 OpenSolaris $0.00 Solaris 10 $0.00 I think that about covers it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 Not entirely honest is it, shall we compare paid-for OS's to paid-for OS's? Like SLED at $50 a year, RHEL server is between $350 and $2500 (per-system annual basis.) and the client edition is between $180 and $3500 (for a bundle), again on per-system annual basis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyrancher82 Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 Windows Vista Business: £0 Windows XP Professional: £0 Windows XP 64bit: £0 Windows 2003 Server: £0 Windows 2000: £0 Windows 2000 Server: £0 Microsoft Developer Network Acadamic Alliance: Priceless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matir Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 Windows Vista Business: £0Windows XP Professional: £0 Windows XP 64bit: £0 Windows 2003 Server: £0 Windows 2000: £0 Windows 2000 Server: £0 Microsoft Developer Network Acadamic Alliance: Priceless. MSDNAA FTW! I love that stuff... now I just wish I had one more XP license on there. :-P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyrancher82 Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 Windows Vista Business: £0Windows XP Professional: £0 Windows XP 64bit: £0 Windows 2003 Server: £0 Windows 2000: £0 Windows 2000 Server: £0 Microsoft Developer Network Acadamic Alliance: Priceless. MSDNAA FTW! I love that stuff... now I just wish I had one more XP license on there. :-P I get three XP Pro's, No SP, SP2, and 64bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Vista + timerstop(now suggested by Microsoft) = $0 (the price it's worth currently) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deags Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Windows Vista Business: £0Windows XP Professional: £0 Windows XP 64bit: £0 Windows 2003 Server: £0 Windows 2000: £0 Windows 2000 Server: £0 Microsoft Developer Network Acadamic Alliance: Priceless. i hear that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 has anyone tried VistR? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rednight Posted March 1, 2007 Author Share Posted March 1, 2007 Not entirely honest is it, shall we compare paid-for OS's to paid-for OS's? Like SLED at $50 a year, RHEL server is between $350 and $2500 (per-system annual basis.) and the client edition is between $180 and $3500 (for a bundle), again on per-system annual basis. Vista is a desktop OS, so RHEL server edition does not matter. And even is you buy Red Hat's Enterprise Linux Desktop version it's still cheaper than vista. Solaris for desktop machines has an optional service contract for $300 bucks too, but thats not an OS license. I would have included OpenVMS, HP-UX, and AIX if they had the OS price listed seperately from the hardware. The $10 OpenVMS hobbyist license does not count, as it is non-comercial. Contracts with an educational institute rally doesn't count either, as your school is paying for a non-comercial site license.[/u] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Vista's fee's are a one off, RHEL fee's are annual... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garda Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 Vista ultimate in .au $751 are the RHEL licenses for only a year, or is support for only a year, do you have to destroy all data on your computer if you don't wish to renew. I find that kinda unlikely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 Support and updates, so while it wouldn't lock out after a year, auto-updates and free tech support would I assume. Has anyone here actually been the position of paying for RHEL? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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