[nzlug] Idea...

[Simon Bridge]

On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 18:13 +1300, SIMON WALKDEN wrote:
> Those costs are not exaggerated at all.
> 
> for business users, you can expect to be hit up for:
> 1. OS cost, be it XP/vista
> 2. the CAL for server usage
> 3. ms-office licensing
Hah! I left off MS-Office - $300 for office-pro isn't it? So my estimate
has hit $1100 ani iirc the guys business doesn't use av because the
salesman said it wasn't needed with vista.

> 4. whichever antivirus solution they use, be it Avast, CA, etc
> 
> all up, just for 1's and 0's, a business is looking at $1000+ before
> even purchasing any hardware, per user.

Yeah: "my boss provides it so it's free" is strikingly naive - but I
suppose it is also naive to suggest that the money may otherwise have
been spent productively (or, on employees).

Still, I tell people: imagine, you could have a computer for $xy00
less... or, a much better computer for the same price.