Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2407 mails)

[tonyz@xxxxxxxxxx (Tony Zafiropoulos)]

Sometimes you will not win a bid, no matter what.

Do not take it personally.

This may have been a political decision (sounds like it).

It wasn't that long ago when people thought they would not get fired if
they bought IBM (Big Blue Iron).

Tony Zafiropoulos
CTiTEK.com
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"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Phil Shrimpton wrote:

> > 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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