Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:53:24 -0400 From: John <papalia@udel.edu> To: "Haikal Saadh" <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com>, <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A depressing thought.. Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20000726195119.00aba6d0@mail.udel.edu> In-Reply-To: <002b01bff7eb$ad67cee0$a3a593cb@timberwolf>
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>...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. My personal favorite statement so far came out of the mouth of the technical director of a IT venture captial company I was working with at one point. When the question of server OS came up for a network we were building, the instruction (not suggestion) was: "Go with NT. After all, it's a Bill Gates World." I think I almost screamed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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