[Technical] Off Topic - Windows XP and Serv Pack 2 Incompatibility

[Con Zymaris]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:05:05PM +1000, Kevin Feely wrote:
> 
> For 50 machines say P4's with 512Mb, HDD, 17"CRT, CD etc - budget 
> models  mostly  ship std with XP home, but as a govt dept this can be  
> replaced with xppro for no extra cost you only need any XP licence.
> All other ms apps are covered by the det - ms contract so i would think 
> $800 to $950 should cover it (depending on extras dvd's or dvd writers 
> etc). Optima have been good for us.

Sounds about right.

What cost would deploying these be? What estimates do you have of yearly 
support for these 50 PCs?

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