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

[Kevin Mitchell <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not only are the licenses more expensive, but you generally need a lot
more processor & ram power to run NT compared to Linux.

Kevin 



On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, ben s. wrote:

> Chris-
> 	Yes, Microsoft does give you a "compilementary" 10 user license
> with server.  However, ever person who connects after that needs a license
> (which I believe cost $100).  Also, if you have a server running office
> (word, excel, etc), each client that uses these apps from the server also
> has to have a license.  This means that for each client computer you could
> be paying for 5 or more licenses.  A computer could spend thousands in
> dollars in just licenses, which does not include the huge amounts of money
> spent for the actual software.  Pretty messed up, eh?
> 
> -Ben S.
> 
> p.s.-if im wrong on any of this correct me, but this is how it was
> explained to me :]
> 
> On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Christopher Pruden wrote:
> 
> > I would just like to add to this, hehe... I love this part... Samba doesn't
> > have any limit on the number of connections(at least, not a licensing limit,
> > I'm sure there is a practical limit) that you can have to your system at
> > once, either, unlike  NT.  I just love that part.. NT Workstation only
> > allows, what... 5 connections?  That's pathetic.  It might be enough for
> > most people, but it's ridiculous that you should have to pay more for having
> > more people connect to YOUR machine.  It's like if Apache were to cost
> > more(read anything) for allowing more than some number of HTTP
> > connection...  Heheh...  Just my opinion.
> > Chris
> > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Bruce Smith <bruce@armintl.com>
> > > To: <klug@klug.armintl.com>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 8:11 AM
> > > Subject: [Fwd: Samba beats NT at its own game...]
> > > | http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,396321,00.html
> > >
> > 
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