Re: [cobalt-users] Restore CD

["Zeffie" <cobaltlist@xxxxxxxx>]

> similarly configured system cost you?  Say a Microsoft solution that Mr.
du
> Toit was comparing with earlier.  To think that you are paying for that
> restoration CD in the cost of that machine is niave and foolish.  It like
> you're not paying for Office 2000 Small Business when you buy a Dell
> Dimension--you know that Microsoft isn't giving that to Dell for free.
> There is *always* a cost and there is *never* such a thing as 'free'.

IMHO
I built and sold systems for years and I never could get all that free
software, free 24/7 hour support and hardware into 1 box and make money.
personally I think dell and the like had agreements with microsoft that
helped both of them and screwed the small to medium companys.

> save money!  I've got a simple formula.  Say Cobalt amortizes the cost of
> maintaining the restore CD's over ever Raq and it works out to be $25 per.
>
> 15 x $25 = $375
>
> You only need one, and they are saving you more than $250 bucks by
offering
> it as an option.  Use that saved money to go get a keg an a whole lot of
> pizza for your technicians!  They'll thank you for it, and we'll all be in
a
> better mood.
>

Have you ever been in a production enviroment?

In this there is no reason other then cobalts greed why the iso images are
not on the ftp site.  i.e.
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.2/iso/

Zeffie