Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 11:52:24 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: lfloyd@sonic.net Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Leverage Message-ID: <199804111852.LAA09193@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 Apr 1998 09:02:10 PDT." <352F9402.64A0AEA5@sonic.net>
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It helps a lot if you can find a company in the same kind of business or at least the same size which is using FreeBSD . In other words, give them a reference and a lot of times is a matter of showing that some in the "pack" are using FreeBSD and the rest of the "Suits" would not mind joining the "pack". You have to lead them like a herd of sheeps 8) Cheers, Amancio > I work for an environmental consulting firm that mainly uses PCs (Win > 3.x and Win95) hooked to an NT server using Banyan. We have about 1,000 > employees nationwide tied together by a WAN. The other day I was > talking to one of the IS support people about alternative OSs. I was > astonished (at first) to hear that our Corp IS folks would never > consider using an operating system that is free. They feel better about > spending money for the product, especially if it has good support. They > are savy enough or experienced enough to figure out problems on their > own. > > So, in the case of FreeBSD, "support" may invite more corporate users to > consider using it.... perhaps. > > (Of course I did mention that there was massive support via the > Internet, but that didn't fly.) > > - Larry > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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