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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joe NYC who wrote (108565)	4/30/2000 1:24:00 AM
From: minnow68	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571040

Joe, They went with RedHat. That was about a year ago. Since then, they've said that the deployment is going much better than they dreamed possible. They've quadrupled the number of machines they want in their schools in the next four years. You wrote "Do you think that anytime price of product A > price of product B, there is a price gauging going on?" No. But when I see (price of A) > (price of B) * 1000 then my suspicious nature is aroused. I must admit, I've never seen a price difference of over a _million_ to one before this case. None of your examples involve a ratio of even 1,000 to one. The TV versus cable example is not free versus cable. One must still buy an antenna. So it is along the lines of $20/month for cable or $30 one time for an antenna. Over twenty years, that would be $4,800 for cable or $30 for the airwaves. Not even close to a thousand to one, and certainly not in the same ballpark as a million to one ratio. Mike