From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jul 26 16:42:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from bne005m.server-mail.com (bne005m.server-mail.com [202.139.234.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E48037B7D5 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:42:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wyldephyre2@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 16294 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2000 23:42:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO timberwolf) (203.147.165.163) by bne005m.server-mail.com with SMTP; 26 Jul 2000 23:42:10 -0000 Message-ID: <002b01bff7eb$ad67cee0$a3a593cb@timberwolf> From: "Haikal Saadh" To: Subject: A depressing thought.. Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:56:47 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ...seems to be that people are not choosing their platform based on technical merit anymore... Case in point: I had lunch with some friends the other day. and one of the blokes was this guy (visiting from norway, I think) whose company works with ASP and other MS technology. Now according to him, when they started out, they approached Sun and Oracle (among others, no mention of anything BSD) for contracts. And the reason why they chose to go MS was because that MS offered them _FREE_ 90 licences for everything, and a free support and consulting for 90 days, among other things which cannot recall at the moment, whereas everyone else was rather slack in offering them anything similar, despite having (arguably) technically superior products. This sucks. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBOYBpzmDp/0spTtEtEQKvSACgjf5cSui9XhuDiMJXGyNdtgDSbFgAoP21 m7DbL4r4MYX4psNEG/kXWlV9 =fKFn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message