Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 10:41:12 -0500 From: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us> To: Don Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there a reseller program? Message-ID: <19990206104111.E26488@acheron.middleboro.ma.us> In-Reply-To: <36BC66A7.6F362D1A@thuntek.net>; from Don Wilde on Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 07:58:31AM -0800 References: <XFMail.990205203052.asmodai@wxs.nl> <36BC4994.B75F9675@thuntek.net> <19990206094941.B26488@acheron.middleboro.ma.us> <36BC66A7.6F362D1A@thuntek.net>
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On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 07:58:31AM -0800, Don Wilde wrote: > sure, but we need to attract those who have discovered that NT doesn't > work! Definitely. :) > We need to uproot people from every other field out there! I think a very valuable thing would be to convert Solaris people, and IT managers who deal with Solaris. If we had an effective plan of attach there, we'd be in good shape. Solaris occupies the role we want, which is to say meaty, centralized operations. I see NT as being more of a threat on the desktop side, where our image isn't very strong. GNU/Linux is seemingly focussed on that end, however, and I'd rather let them keep their converts so as to better focus on the server market. > Why don't you see if you can make a list of arguments we can use to infect > Mac users? I'd think they'd be the hardest to convert, inasmuch as they're > the most GUI-and-app-centered. Hm... Looking at the Windows world of the past decade or so, it's hard to draw a distinction between that world and the Mac world in terms of GUI usage. Lots of Unix people tend to be fond of Macs, perhaps because of the same university-bred familiarity. (This may be changing, as Apple loses market share everywhere, but it's traditionally been the case. But then, things seem to be turning around for Apple a bit.) I think that converting Mac people will involve the dramatic success of the GNOME project, for one, and then <shudder> lots and lots of OS-specific GUI tools for system administration. But then, this will draw in lots of MS people, too. (Here's an interesting idea... GUI tools to administer BSD that are themselves themed based on your preference of OS model. If you want Mac- like tools, you get them. If you want a control layout similar to Windows, you get that.) -- Mason Loring Bliss (( "In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us )) build their nest with fragments dropped http://acheron.ne.mediaone.net (( from day's caravan." - Rabindranath Tagore To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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