User Linux

Rob sysadmin at fleetone.com
Wed Feb 11 17:23:46 UTC 2004


And if you have a student in your family, you can get 3 copies of office xp
teacher / student edition for much cheaper:

$149.00 for 3 copies.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/prodinfo/students/overview.mspx

Rob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bennett, Patrick" <Patrick.Bennett at inin.com>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:14 AM
Subject: RE: User Linux


> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Brent Fox
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:54 AM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: User Linux
>
> >Also, just to make it fair, the $99 price for Windows XP Home is for
> the upgrade version.  The retail price for the full version of Windows
> XP Home is $199:
> >
> >http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=316255
> >
> >Then add Office 2003 to that at $369 for the full version:
> >http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=539386
> >
> >$199 + $369 = $568
>
>
> Well, to make it *really* fair you can't count Office in the price
> calculations since OpenOffice is available for Windows as well.
> The same could be said for a fair number of packages that are being
> considered part of the Linux bundle/price-advantage comparison.
>
>
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