[NTLUG:Discuss] Non-subscription enterprise licenses?

[Chris Cox]

Carl Haddick wrote:
> 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.
> 

Not as out of step as you might think.  More and more, people are
finding that vendor support is pretty poor.  Shoot, I can't even
find a good salesman... sigh....  things are going downhill.

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