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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Another Linux Religious war (was Re: Commercial vendors registry)
To: abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (Alex Belits)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 09:46:30 +1000 (EST)
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In some mail from Alex Belits, sie said:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Darren Reed wrote:
> 
> > I can't see any upper management person ever taking a liking to anything
> > that is available "freely" on the 'net for mission critical stuff.  And
> > I don't mean your < 100 people small companies, but big organisations
> > with real budgets.
> 
>   Most of decisions of that kind aren't made by upper management in both
> small and big companies.

Heard of the "tendering process" and "signoff" ?