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New Microsoft licenses may increase costs | |
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| Time: 15:57 EST/20:57 GMT | News Source: CNET | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Microsoft on Thursday revamped its software licensing program for most business customers, effectively raising the cost of upgrades by as much as 107 percent, analysts said. The announcement follows speculation that the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant would force its largest customers--those using the Enterprise Agreement licensing program--to pay for software on a three-year subscription basis. | ||
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| #1 By 20 (Unknown) at 5/10/2001 9:12:00 PM |
| Gasp! You mean I actually have to PAY for increased functionality!?!? |
| #2 By 20 (Unknown) at 5/10/2001 10:41:00 PM |
| Damn that Microsoft, always charging for products! I'll only use free software from now on. In fact, I'm using Mozilla right now, and It's gr--- |
| #3 By 20 (Unknown) at 5/10/2001 10:41:00 PM |
| Hmm, it put my posts out of order. Oh well, you get the picture. |
| #4 By 20 (Unknown) at 5/10/2001 10:41:00 PM |
| Oops, its crashed. I'm back on IE now. Guess free software only goes so far. |
| #5 By 20 (Unknown) at 5/11/2001 10:03:00 AM |
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Anyone who runs Linux for a server either does it for a cheesy web page, a cheesy web hosting deal, DNS, FTP, or telnet and that's about it. Linux sucks for just about everything else. It's not scalable (except with hacky clustering software that only seems to work for scientific applications), it has no enterprise transaction processor framework, the kernel has many multi-threaded networking issues (as revealed by the Mindcraft tests and Linus himself admitted it) of which 2.4 only fixes a few. OTOH, Win2K offers an enterprise transaction processor (COM+), you know the one that everyone including IBM, BEA, and Sun are trying to emulate, world-class and record-breaking database services (www.tpc.org), and near-linear scalability with clustering. With Microsoft Application Center server, the clustering possibilities and ROI are nearly limitless. Linux isn't even close to this. They're still trying to beat Microsoft at web serving and MS has moved on to the enterprise. |
| #6 By 20 (Unknown) at 5/11/2001 10:06:00 AM |
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The truth is, Linux would choke on anything other than static web pages. Please show me a site running Linux/PHP that isn't slow and buggy. Every single site I've seen with .php on the end is down frequently or horribly slow. The fact is, Linux is a good DNS and FTP server, and that's about it. |
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