Re: [Fwd: Samba beats NT at its own game...]

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

>> What I meant was, you can't give M$ $35 and expect a full verison of NT 
>>workstation to connect to your server. <
>Why not? It will connect regardless if you purchase a license or not.
I did not beleive a licence purchase is needed in this case. Look:
   1. You have NT server.
   2. You have Win[9[58]|NT]
   3. You have (e.g.) Office
   4. You want to share files, to create .doc files on the server in the
      closet to the workstation under your desk.
   5. Where do you want to go today?   ;)
   6. NOT to the checkbook to write ANOTHER check, for what? A Licence?
      Not in my experience, or the experience of any of my customers.

      You should note that these are people who follow the letter of 
      contracts, and have legal departments for just such things. If
      there were such licence fees to be paid, they'de pay them.

>> You are purchasing the ablility for an OS you already own to connect to
>>that server.
>No, you are purchasing a piece of paper that says you have permission to
>connect to a NT server.
I don't beleive this. I don't BELEIVE this thread. I've seen over twenty 
messages on this topic, and no one is closer to understanding how these
products are packaged and sold than we did 36 hours ago.

This is not a critical comment targeting the participants, and it's not to
say that anyone is particularly wrong, or right, for that mattter.

It IS CLEARLY testimony to the complexity, obscurity, and multiple faces of
the pricing that has been developed in Redmond. 

I stick to my "figure of merit" of about $100/licence incremental cost. I don't
need to defend it, and I don't need to attack anyone else's number.

Many of them may well be right! :)

Some of the numbers have been artificially inflated or deflated in order to 
make points, reflect particular pricing plans, reach averages, or make MS
"look worse" than might otherwise be the case. If we're going to continue this,
I'd suggest we focus on the INCREMENTAL cost of networking, or putting up
network apps. If we don't, there are too many issues to deal with.

>I would not say blown, more like spent. No matter what you are running on
>the desktop, sooner or later you will have to buy software. We can't have
>everything for free!
If you're speaking in terms of paying (or not paying) for any software, why 
not?  What's the problem with getting ALL the software you need for no charge? 

>...I've put in three NT networks in my company (in serveral buildings) and I
>don't have a lot of problems.
Please quantify. I can quantify my experience with NT vs. Linux at three
sites now.

>>... who refused the linux option BTW. <
>What is BTW?
By The Way
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