« Previous Post | Home | Rock vs. Windshield. »
So. You thought software was expensive?
By Chris | July 23, 2007
Try seeing what you gotta do for a volume license for XP Pro. Dell quoted me $299.99 for the 12 computers. Total, with tax: $3839.16. For Office 2007….well, let’s just say that grand total was $5793.20. So, if you add it all up..it’s nearly $10,000 in software. We’re not including the computers.
Why did I ask for a quote? Well, my FD has a network. I am in charge of this network. The subject who was in charge of it before me had some nicely illegitimate copies of W2K. He had an illegal copy of Windows Server 2000 too. Well, the server died, and I convinced them that we need to be legal, and also to buy a new server. My next mission was to have legit copies of software for all the computers. So I emailed Dell for a quote. I was expecting a couple large, but not 10. TEN! Eish.
Our network guy at work recommended a company downtown, I’m emailing them shortly, and will see what they have to say. Hopefully it will be significantly less. I only want XP Pro, and a basic Office package. Doesn’t even need to be Office 2007.
In other news…I got the replacement HDD and I swapped the PCBs and it spun to life. I got some files off of it, and much to my chagrin, there wasn’t any more stuff on it. But I got some songs, and some other random crap. That computer drive lived a short life, 1998 until May 2001. It died upon my return to Charleston from Altus AFB, OK. So, it was like a little time capsule. I’ll fire it up on a spare computer later on this week and tinker with Windows Me - which I felt was one of the better Windows OS’s. Too bad it wasn’t as long lived.
In even other news, I am close to wrapping up another database project at work. I like my little sideline projects, it gives me something else to do instead of the same ol’ same ol.’ I only wish I was good enough to make some cash off of it.
I’m going to bed. Yes, it’s only 2132.
Comments
You must be logged in to post a comment.