From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-09-12T12:49:29+09:00
Subject: Re: The economics of a slow but productive Ruby

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 12:38:29PM +0900, Gregory Brown wrote:
> On 9/11/06, Carl Lerche <carl.lerche@verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> >4) I didn't see any factor for software budget.
> 
> Which is significant.  I don't know the cost of licenses for Windows
> servers, but I imagine it is costly, not to mention things like
> development tools...  Actually, I imagine a .Net project could greatly
> exceed its hardware costs in software costs, given the right
> circumstances.

I don't have current figures, but you're right -- server licenses are
far beyond hardware costs with Windows, especially when including MS
software for development, for the framework, et cetera.

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