[Gllug] new railtrack screens

David Irvine co2cool at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 13 16:40:52 UTC 2001


On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 16:25, Kim Hawtin wrote:
> > On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 13:53, Kim Hawtin wrote:
> > > > At 07:53 13/11/01 -0500, you wrote:
> > > > >Run NT... I saw a couple booting at Birmingham yesterday. The
> > > > >screens are side on, to make them tall. I hope that doesn't 
> > > > >mean they have one NT box per screen...
> > > > I think they might do because they don't all go wrong together, I've seen
> > > > individual ones reboot.  Saw them at Leeds about 6 months ago.
> > > > Imagine the license costs of all those windows boxes!
> > > 
> > > quite scary at 500 pounds a throw ...
> > > 
> > No Wonder they are always moaning about being skint.
> 
> just think that when MS change (expire) all the embedded
> client licences in february, then to XP style PAYG,
> they (railtrack) will have to pay this every twelve months!
> 
> yours,
> 
> Kim
> 
> 
How much do you recon the government are going to be willing to throw at
railtrack then? And what happens when a company like railtrack run out
of money? (Other than more crashes)

D


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