[oclug] HP Linux to ship next week.

[bbarnett at L8R.net]

On 23-Aug-2001 Strosberg, Bill wrote:
>> From: Dean Staff [mailto:dean at protus.com]
>> This is interesting....
>> 
>> In particular take a look at what HP is going to charge....
>> 
>> http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/08/22/010822hnhpli
>> nux.xml?0822wepm
> 
> Good for HP.  I hope they get the $3000/server!
> 
> When you look at the time, expertise, experience and quality control
> necessary to set up a production quality commercial public server, $3000 is
> not that much.  Enterprise-sized corporations will not even blink at this
> cost to get reliable, well protected and supported servers.  I expect that
> the price to purchase Windows Enterprise Datacenter Server for the IA64 will
> easily be in the same price range for something with closed architecture and
> proprietary everything.
> 
> Like most people I tend to believe I can build a quality server using Linux
> and open source products for next to nothing, but if you realisticially
> factor in experience, education, research, resource materials, testing and
> quality control the only thing that makes a Linux machine cheap is
> willingness to give away your time.  HP has figured this out.
> 
> --
> Bill Strosberg
> 

On top of all this, some people firmly believe that price equates quality.  If
something is selling for $10000, it _has_ to be worth more than something that
is free.


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