Looming vista

Tue Oct 10 05:52:05 CST 2006

Frankly I hope so - annual subscriptions will be great.

The more annoying, and costly (and obviously costly - not hidden under
the covers costs) Windows (and Office) become the better. It will hurt
business in the first instance, which is a shame, but even that serves a
purpose. As then it will increase migrations over to alternate systems,
primarily Linux. Cost being the driver.

Once these migrations start to occur, further migrations will spawn from
the success (assumed ;)) of the pioneers. People will also begin to
realise that Linux, is not just a low cost alternative, but a
functionally superior one at that.

This is where 'corporatised' distributions (SLED, and the new RHEL
Desktop) will probably start to make significant grounds (especially
SLED, due to its superior integration and management).

Then the value of Vista to the OSS community will be realised.

Well that's the plan anyway. :)

Cheers,
Michael Haarsma

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:linuxsa-bounces at linuxsa.org.au] On Behalf Of Kim Hawtin
> Sent: Tuesday, 10 October 2006 3:20 PM
> To: linuxsa at linuxsa.org.au
> Subject: Re: Looming vista
> 
> 
> Robyn M wrote:
> > OEM pricing is what new computer buyers will be facing. 
> Those who want 
> > to upgrade current software will be facing new or upgrade prices.
> 
> and the next question is, will these prices be the begining 
> of the annual subscription?
> 
> cheers,
> 
> kim
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