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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (9662)	7/25/1998 4:23:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) of 74651

In response to your three items: 1) Unix OS's are not more expensive than MSFT's. Solaris for the X86 platform, for one, is priced competitively with NT, and Linux is much cheaper (free or nominal) than any of MSFT's OS's. I was shocked at the prices I've seen recently for NT; they appear to me to be MUCH HIGHER than those for Unix. 2) Win 98 does not seem to me to be a bargain, and I have not and will not buy a copy. Others obviously disagree with me, and that's fine. 3) This "point" is meaningless, because the competitors to MSFT's OS's are not "unsupported." We've just been through that. Of course there are varying degrees and means of support, as well as various pricing plans. What exactly do you mean by a "supported patch" that's so mystical? Are you trying to say that Microsoft will come out and install the patch on my machine? Will they call me personally to warn me of a patch that cures a security hole? What do THEY do beyond just putting patches up on the Internet for downloading or otherwise making them available that makes the patches "supported" in your mind in contrast to others? JMHO.

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