Microsoft Windows Server 2008

[srk006]

Vista Ultimate costs more than Rs. 20000. I found this site offering at Rs. 14400.

Windows Vista® Ultimate - Rs.14,400.00 : TeckPot by sSky Technologies, Experience Innovation

@srk006: 8k was the price of XP Pro.

In that site both XP PRO and Vista Business cost Rs.10.7K

 

[msdivy]

As of today Windows Server 2008 is not released. What is available is the Release Candidate (RC0) for evaluation purposes. It will be launched officially on Feb 27th 2008.I have installed the RC0 build. If Windows 2003 was similar to XP, then 2008 is similar to Vista in GUI appearance.

 

[kindofblue]

by my estimate, stuff (except maybe basics like food and housing) is about 5 times more costly in terms of purchasing power for indians at least certainly hi-tech stuff not manufactured in india...

which means if you can afford to buy one item (say a car or laptop) of anything in india, you can afford to buy 5 of them in the states! imagine a middle-class person owning 5 cars/pcs/tv etc heh

Can you show any maths behind this? I am interested in the topic of purchasing power parity... (no, not that stupid big mac example)

 

[coolbuddy_79]

i wouldnt pay more than 10k for vista ultimate


not more than 5K

As of today Windows Server 2008 is not released. What is available is the Release Candidate (RC0) for evaluation purposes. It will be launched officially on Feb 27th 2008.

I have installed the RC0 build. If Windows 2003 was similar to XP, then 2008 is similar to Vista in GUI appearance.

right...it's sans the aero effect and a plain blue background like Windows 2003 Server...performance wise, it's pretty stable, though haven't loaded it too much to exactly know it's performance...

 

[vissu]

i've managed to run vista ultimate on my pc.. ram is 512mb. but performance rating is poor(2.0)

 

[DigitalDude]

Softwares Price List

scroll down a bit

 

[vishalrao]

@ramaseshan: this wikipedia link has your answer, and the big mac example is also in there, sorry heh Purchasing power parity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[kindofblue]

Come on... I'd already read that. I thought you had some seperate formula...

 

[vishalrao]

for my simple formula i just calculated with my current salary and a rough estimate of a US salary for the same position/level im in. then took the US-india exchange rate and compared with the actual price of some items in US vs. India, like a car, lcd monitor, laptop etc thats how i arrived at a "5x" estimate of purchasing-power/cost-of-living...

 

[gregory house]

To my knowledge, there is no single formula to describe what you want. PPP as a concept depends entirely on what you are comparing (no apples vs. oranges).

So it will fall flat on its face if you compare manufactured goods whose value signifysignificantly comprises of raw materials as opposed to services (labour, R & D etc). A car or ipod cannot be manufactured at 1/4th the cost of the US version simply because Indians earn 4 times less (even on PPP basis).

Things are different as far as services and soft goods go though. They can be suitably priced keeping in mind the price expected by the market.