Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 11:42:23 -0700 From: Don Wilde <dwilde1@ibm.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NW+IOP Presentation Message-ID: <3553520F.F7AA3C7B@ibm.net> References: <10966.894638140@time.cdrom.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > It went reasonably well, gave out half of the CD's. Participation wasn't > > great, auditorium was only half full (~45). My talk was well received, > > but I didn't sense a lot of movement from the 'suits' portion of the > > crowd. What, I have to learn to do it myself? I can't just reboot and > > solve all my problems? <raspberry> John Gallant (Sr. Editor of NWW) was > > definitely interested, he asked for an eval copy. > > It takes serious finesse to sell Unix, no doubt about it. You're > going up against some major FUD spread by very well-paid advertising > agencies and Unix's own weaknesses where it comes to application > support and configuration framework. Ah well, as Nietzsche said, what > does not kill us only makes us stronger. :-) > Finesse and perseverence... and easier installs. I'm looking at your sysinstall source files, wading through them. The Test will be what I can do with it... ;) > > Out on the floor, the main comment I got was that we need to find a way > > to generate hard numbers. Our first target need not be W-NT, but if we > > can show comparable numbers of servers or seats to an HP or Sun or AIX, > > we will be on their radar screens for serious products like Netective > > This will always be a finger-in-the-wind task at best given that we > offer free downloads. :-( Can you sift the logs to determine anon ID? At least with that we can get a number with 'upgrade' downloads subtracted. It doesn't help with multiple-machine sites, though. I'm going to go back and revisit my earlier idea of a 'chain letter' posting. Since it's in everybody's interest, we should get a decent response. --> Don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3553520F.F7AA3C7B>