Fw: [Sussex] What the opposition costs

[Mark Harrison]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff Teale" <gteale at cmedltd.com>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: [Sussex] What the opposition costs


> On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 16:33 +0000, Mark Harrison wrote:
>
> > Not true.
> >
> > I sell at least two products with this characteristic... neither of
these is
> > a monopoly.
>
>
> Fair enough.  I am surprised that companies are prepared to take such a
> deal.

So am I, but I'll cash their cheques anyway :-)


> One things for sure - you are certain to get a lot more service for your
> money from the likes of Red Hat _and_ the upgrades you need  - and if
> you choose not to you don't have to scrap the technology you can simply
> get another party to maintain it for you or do it yourself.

Absolutely true.

I was not trying to defend MS's position on this in any way. I was only
agreeing with your generalisation from the specific (MS) to the generic
(monopoly characteristic.)

Regards,

Mark