[NCLUG] Cheapskate thanks you for your kind assistance

[Rich Young]

Whoa, Nelly!  I just swung by VMWare to get my license for the full version, 
and I was off by about 100% -- they want around $300 for it!  I guess I was 
looking at the upgrade price before.  $300 makes it almost certain that you 
could buy a good used dedicated linux box for less than the software costs of 
converting.  You could almost buy a new eMachines box for that much.

On the bright side, Journey Ed sells an academic license for $139.  I qualify 
(I teach part time), but you may not; they're pretty careful about proof of 
academic status.  

--Rich

On Thursday 16 May 2002 11:22, I wrote:
> - You will also need to buy VMWare.  It's around $150, I think.