[Ilugc] TN may shut door on Microsoft
- From: sudhir@xxxxxxxxxx (Sudhir Gandotra)
- Date: Tue Jan 2 22:28:20 2007
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 13:17 +0100, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
On 02/01/07, Raman.P <raamanp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It will be difficult for MS because that will become standard price
not only in TN but in all State and Central Government.
Well, the OEM price for Windows XP is $20 or less, for big guys (like
Dell etc.). Since there is hardly any incremental costs for software
for additional copies sold, they can undercut the price as much as
they want (and say, ask for a much higher amount at the next upgrade).
However he is also human being and may prove me wrong, which I hope
will not happen.
I too hope the project is a massive success and a trend setter for
other state governments (Hyderabad - hint, hint :)
Binand
M$ is known to undercut any situation. so, one has to be very careful.
You can't fight them on prices. They did this in punjab and surely
elsewhere in the world. They r capable of killing others' deal (read
Linux deals). We have faced this ourselves.
The TN initiative needs to be supported by making it popular among
people - by making loud noise as to how the Govt. ( & hence the
tax-payers) is saving a huge sum of money.
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