[NTLUG:Discuss] Non-subscription enterprise licenses?

[Carl Haddick]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 03:10:47AM -0500, Ralph Green wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 01:19 -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 00:39 -0500, David Stanaway wrote:
> > > I am shocked to discover that windows is going to be cheaper than Linux
> > > for a vendor supported platform for an app I need to run. Please say it
> > > isn't so!
> > 
> > Please look at:
> > http://www.ntlug.org/BP-ccox/GetTheFacts
> > 

I don't argue much with vendor support, but it's a shame there is often
no flexibility in management decisions.  When I ran my own company I had
almost no vendor support for anything at first because I couldn't afford
it.  As I got up steam I found myself uninterested in vendor support for
software.  All our key stuff ran under Linux, and I felt that if I had
no vendor support it amounted to evolutionary pressure to be
self-sustaining.

That's completely out of step with the world, I know.

Carl