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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Kelly who wrote (30390)	4/9/2000 3:20:00 PM
From: Steve Lee	Respond to of 64865

unlimited client licences not possible under Win2k I'm afraid. You're looking at about $20 per client. However, once you have bought your clients a licence each, that is valid for connection to any NT/2000 machine so the cost per server is really not that high. Especially when you consider that the server normally has some kind of software on it apart from the OS and that generally requires licences too, in which case Solaris based licences (eg Oracle - a popular use for Solaris servers) are vastly more expensive than Windows based products. Anyway, the discussion was about you picking a number of the top of your head to try to make an unfounded point and me correcting it. I put this stuff in so my world consists of real facts,figures and results rather than airey fairy head in the sand "no one is better than Sun" crap. So Sun customers pay 2 pipers - they pay Sun and they pay the application vendor.