[Gllug] caldera calls out.

[Xander D Harkness]

M$ are in the black.

I have just priced up M$ Exchange server against Bynari's insight 
server.  Both have the same functions, except I would expect Insight to 
be more robust as it runs on Linux.

Costs for exchange + w2k for 500 licences £32,000
costs for Insight server + Redhat support for a year for 500 licences £900

Oh and yet they still want to run with M$ because they have the 
expertise here.  (I should temper this with the fact that I had to 
explain to the M$ hostmaster here the difference between MX, NS and A 
records!).

David Damerell wrote:

> On , 23 Aug 2001, Nix wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Simon Trimmer gibbered:
>>
>>>He's not the most respected person in the community, but some some
>>>of what he said is true. I came to a similar conclusion a while back
>>>that you can't make money out of a linux (or unix) distribution.
>>>
>>They make a good loss leader though; ask Red Hat.
>>
> 
> Who are actually in the black these days.
> 



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