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[phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Phil Shrimpton)]

> From: EXT-Moore, Kirk W

Hi,

> I just wish that we could focus on SuSE linux, and leave
> the editorials to another list somewhere else.

My apologies, it has been a bad day, and that article was partly to blame.

Basically I just lost a contract for a n-tier distributed database system
which I had proposed to one of my clients. (Open Source Database running on
Linux servers, Open Source Corba App server, running on Linux servers,
Delphi Clients running on Windows).

The reason, because "Linux is buggy, unstable, only for long haired students
and the unemployed who can't afford to purchase software". (They also quoted
the link I posted as an example). The fact was I was saving so much money on
licensing they would have got triple the development time for their budget.

The requirements for the system were "Reliability and Stability over tools
and technologies".  And to top it all, the last thing they said was "What's
wrong with Visual Basic and SQLServer?".

Cheers

Phil


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