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 Office: 314-726-5080 Fax: 314-726-5085 Cell: 314-504-3974 "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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