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- From: ray@camco1.celestial.com (Ray A. Jones)
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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
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- Date: 26 Feb 1996 17:25:09 GMT
- Organization: Celestial Software
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- Joseph Bissot (bissot@deltanet.com) wrote:
- : > Like Linux, I presume? What the advocates of 95 and NT forget is that the
- : > shit costs a lot of money, especially the NT. And you can't rule out the
- : > RAM costs, no matter how carefully one shops around. Let's face the ugly
- : > fact. Some people can't afford the requirements of NT. While the cost of
- : > the RAM will surely continue to fall, it's apparent to me that M$ will
- : > make even more bloated software demanding even more computing power
- : > faster than it can become affordable.
- : >
- : > Cost is the number 1 reason I use Linux.
-
- : Very true... but my time is worth far more than the cost of my hardware.
- : People who have important things to do can't afford the extra time. Linux is
- : a time intensive OS by comparison to NT. Never mind the fact that nobody will
- : build a turn-key anything on Linux.
- Opps, I have to disagree, Last Friday I was invited to an open house where the
- main attraction was a "turn-key" Firewall system (Linux based). Slick system,
- point and click firewall maintenace. Called the Orion from Zebu Systems.
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- INTERNET: ray@Celestial.COM Ray A. Jones; Celestial Systems, Inc.
- URL: http://www.celestial.com One Mercer Plaza, Suite S100
- Mercer Island, WA 98040; (206) 236-1676
- Manufacturer of InterRack (Internet-in-a-Rack), a full turn-key
- system, including all the hardware, software, installation, setup, training
- and support for businesses and Internet Service Providers
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