Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] What we are dealing with.
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Andrew L. Davis wrote:
zentara wrote: The "selling point" would be getting $500 dollar NT Server "functionality"; at a lower cost.
Of course, Microsoft would probably retaliate by dropping the price for NT Server, then make the money back by expensive "service contracts" to fix their bugs. :-)
I don't think the money is an issue for most people? What I have seen is that most Companies can get NT with all the bells and whisles for much less than micro$oft leads us to believe. A 25 client license with everything is under 1000 dollars; to buy all of the software in peices would cost 5000 dollars or more. Plus most Consultants once they spend the money to get micro$oft certified seem to think that they now have to use MS products to get there moneys worth. I would like to get MS certified so that I would be able to offer the best solution to the problem. The consultants here in Louisville seem to think that there is only one solution to the problem and that is micro$oft. I assume that these are people who come from Novell backrounds because I refuse to believe that someone with Unix experience would think that there is only one solution. These people are also making the firewall the same machine that does the file serving and web hosting for these companies. The only thing protecting them is animosity and the sheer numbers of people now connecting to the internet.
Ya, I would bet that the reality is that there is a "built-in" corporate "old-boys" network making most of the descisions. Alot of it has to do with corporate "backscratching", and political contributions...not technical merits. Most of these executives don't know a thing about their computer systems, but see alot of cool Microsoft TV commercials, respect the "stock-market standing" of Microsoft, and generally just feel it's safer to be "on-the-bandwagon". They also know that for some bucks, they can get all their questions answered by expensive tech support. The real computer professionals are not in the "descision-making" end of big businesses. I've seen alot of "engineers" who couldn't function without Windows... gotta have Excel, PowerPoint, etc. Put them at a command line interface, and they think the system is broken. Plus now alot of people are worrying about the "security" of their Microsoft systems, when the source code isn't out in the open. When some nattily dressed saleperson from Microsoft says "trust us"; would you? I have this idea for a great movie, where a foreign mob buys up all Microsoft stock, and makes a takeover. Then all the corporations who are totally reliant on Microsoft, have fits as there machines are tampered with. They will all yell "why didn't the government do something", ha, ha, ha. It would put the Year2000 problem in perspective. I think the real battle should be in the schools. Linux is so powerful and cheap, that it should be the choice of all school systems. Imagine starting to learn Perl, and C in 8th grade, and being able to afford it on your home computer so you can do your homework. Only kids from rich families could afford to get NT, Visual Basic, and Visual C, on their home computers. Linux is a far better choice as a "standard" for the world. :-) -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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