Reg -
The price has risen with the ability of the product to perform. There is a massive difference between NT5 and NT 3.51, performance, app compatibility, stability, scalability, etc. You are also doing the same thing you accused Rudedog of doing. NT is a high(er) end product that is not marketed to the retail consumer. It is clearly an enterprise OS (server and workstation) and should be compared to others in its class. Sun, SGI and IBM all outprice NT in these categories. IF NT is price gouging, you better explain that to Sun who is losing workstation business to the under priced PC OS.
On the server front, Irix, Solaris, AIX, DUX, and HPUX are all cheaper than NT if you have more than about 5 users. That's not even considering the TCO, which is *much* higher for NT, when you count up all the hidden costs like downtime and the need to be phyically present with the machine in order to admin it in a meaningful way.
-justinb |
