Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 07:00:43 +0100 (CET) From: "Michael C. Vergallen" <mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be> To: chris@tci.com Cc: dan@dna.tsolab.org, mmercer@ipass.net, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, me@T-F-I.freeserve.co.uk, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Confusion Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903190650260.774-100000@ns.double-barrel.be> In-Reply-To: <199903190540.WAA07008@lazlo.tci.com>
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On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 chris@tci.com wrote: > One of the NT guys once told me that, "It [some ms server product] is so > simple to set up that monkeys could do it." I replied with, > "Apparently, they are." The point I'm making here is just to show > that, as computers get easier for people to use, more and more people > who know less and less about them are now using them. In today's > world, it's not long before these same people are helping make decisions > about what to use and what not. They allready do in most cases ...Management is worst in this instance becuase those boys only want to read glossy ads..anything more is to strenious(SP?) for them... > Look, the NT admins I know who are getting their feet wet are doing it > of their own free will - they're wanting to check out what all the hype > about OSS and the like is about. They go to retail stores, check out > the packaging, and buy what they think is the "better" product. I'm > happy as Hell they're doing this, but do we really want to be confusing > people from the very start. Remember the Betamax? Yes but eh I tend to disagree with the reason behind them trying OSS. They are scared that the world is going to go with OSS for more and more tasks due to the exhorbitant prices MS is asking for their crapola. So they don't wanne mis the boat so to speak that if shit hits the fan they can always work with OSS. Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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