Support is a big issue. The company I work for has contracts with the government. If we wanted a FreeBSD workstation there is no way they would just let me build one, we would have to purchase one from a company that offers a support contract with the machine (same reason we have Dell workstations (Windows) and HP servers (HP-UX and RHEL)). So for bigger companies who are required to have support contract on all their machines they purchase this would (I cannot believe I am saying this) an acceptable price for a desktop. And i am sure if a company is going to buy 100 of these they probably get a sweet discount. If my company would let me have a FreeBSD desktop at work i would never leave them.
Sean
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