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

["ben s." <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

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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