Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 11:22:31 +1000 (GST) From: Meltedice <meltedice@kuentos.guam.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>, Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, Domingo Siliceo <dsiliceo@adam.es> Subject: Re: Opinions? Message-ID: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960718111620.11209B-100000@saba.kuentos.guam.net> In-Reply-To: <1431.837633413@time.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> [Finally moved over exclusively to -chat]
>
> > It's actually not the important figure to look at. Initial hardware and
> > software costs are a miniscule portion of the cost of deploying any system
> > on this scale. If you can show that solution X takes less time to install,
> > is easier to configure, is easier to upgrade, and requires minimal staff
> > training time to use, (along with being robust and fast, etc) you'll get
> > people to listen.
> This represents a window of opportunity for us since once someone's
> committed to something, be it for economic or for personal preference
> reasons, they're probably not inclined to switch away from a solution
> which works and they've already got the staff trained on. This is
> the same rationale which has folks like DEC and HP donating massive
> amounts of hardware and software to colleges - get 'em hooked while
> they're young. :-)
>
> Jordan
>
I was one of those college kids who got hooked on Novell in the
early 90's, when I was a user all I could do was push buttons. Then I
actually was hired to learn, use, and discover Unix on an old AT&T
3B2/600G, then to Sun Servers and FreeBSD and BSDI now a days. Wow I am
glad I was fortuanate enough to see the light!
Bill
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