Re: Which Red Hat version?
From: Jacob Heider (lord-jacob_at_comcast.net)
Date: 05/06/04
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Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 07:10:15 GMT
On Thu, 6 May 2004 00:38:47 -0600, a posting issued forth from Mark A...
>>
>> > The Red Hat Professional Workstation edition includes 1 year of updates
> and
>> > 30 days of phone/Web installation support. Additonal years of support
>> > (updates) are currently priced at $60 (I believe).
>> >
>> > Windows XP will likely be supported for free for at least 4 years (but
>> > custom phone/Web installation support is extra). Not sure how much
> longer
>> > Windows 2000 will be supported, but support is still provided for
> Windows
>> > 98. That's why people say the cost of Windows is now about the same as
> Red
>> > Hat Professional Workstation.
>>
>> Puleeeze!
>>
>> Have you costed out encountering even _one_ email virus? How much
>> will you be paying for the virus protection racket? There is much,
>> much, more involved in total cost of ownership than the acquisition
>> costs.
>>
>> Heck, $60US/year is $0.17US/day. I'll bet AC power for the PC costs more
>> than that. (OK, cheap shot ;-)
>>
> You are comparing the cost of Windows vs RH. With the new $60 per year
> service charge, the cost is similar. When someone decides to write a RH
> virus, watch out because all hell will break loose and the fix may not come
> in time to avoid disaster.
>
>
How do you think someone can write a "RH virus"? What are they going to
exploit? We have all the source. Do you ever look at the exploits that
fixed by new releases. *I'm* always seeing things like "if someone has
access to the system, then there is a theoretical set of input which
could give them root access". I'm intensly skeptical that there will
ever be a "linux virus" in the way there are "windows virii", due to the
massively different security model (bug-hunting vs. bug-hiding).
Oh, and to address the more obvious mistake in the previous post, the
cost will never be similar. What do you pay for M$ WinXP + M$ office +
Adobe Photoshop + all the other software which is a (well-integrated)
part of a (standard) linux distribution?
Between included software, up-time, and security, you'd need a very
specialized (or minimal, my grandmother, perhaps) situation where the
TCO of linux ever exceeded that of WXP.
Jacob
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