[NCLUG] Cheapskate thanks you for your kind assistance

[Michael Dwyer]

Rich Young wrote:
> 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.

Look around for the lite version, too.  They have (had?) a version that
would only run Win9x (wouldn't run NT, 2000, etc) that was significantly
cheaper...