Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 14:16:03 -0400 From: simon <defaultuser@domain.com> To: Freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE Message-ID: <354379E2.C9E88D1A@domain.com> References: <3.0.32.19691231210000.00ba8750@pop.mpc.com.br>
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Some more thoughts about this.....
> >I wonder anyway; all these South-American countries that are cronically
> >'broke' would be 10000 times better served (pun intended) buy moving
> >large parts of their IT-infrastructure to FreeBSD/Linux.
>
> Technicaly, yes.
>
> > How can your
> >University afford all these NT/Win95 licenses, how can it afford the
> >24-months HW-upgrades ?
>
> Pretty simple. Mr. Gates offers NT-based stuff for free, sources included;
> All SW developed using those sources become MS's property.
>
> and about the HW upgrade, we simply don't upgrade. We run slow machines.
>
> Now, though you may say that the Latin-American countries are broken, there
> is always a way to buy new computer, specially when you want to build a new
> mentality, product or tendency.
>
> I mean that if the industry need some more ppl to work with NT, they just
> give NT and the needed HW for free to Universities.
>
> Pretty easy, isn't it ?
>
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Hi most of you have never seen my name around the list although Iīve dropping
by almost two months ago (minus the week I spent on my honeymoon, for obvious
reasons I couldnīt get in touch), Iīm a sysems engineer working in Caracas,
Venezuela, and for those of you who donīt know the reality about the software
industries in many LatinAmerican countries I will try to explain it to you in a
few words: Not enough source of information and NOT A SINGLE SOUL willing to
search and find it and as a second fact I will say that the software industry
(as mostly all bussinesses down here) wants ROI at the maximum speed and
profitability at 150% or more. Under these conditions you might view the
scenario: "work with dummies that can learn just the simple facts of the trade
and exploit them to the bones, the less they know the more profitable they are
since they can be well managed (like cattle) and besides why bother using
something that you have to spend some time learning, while we have an 'american
product' (in our very poor mentality is a synonym of "good quality", no offense
intended..believe me) which is used there (USA) for all the computer industry,
is fast to set up and can give me the profits I want in no time, without having
to spend a single coin or a nanosec. in training..."
While you meditate about these ideas I am sharing with all of you, I will
say that there are a lot of us who do not agree with this philosophy and are
working very hard to try to change it. Like for example in the place I work
right now, I am trying to push the idea of a FreeBSD server to be used as a
Firewall for our network once we end up the installation of a few routers.
Believe me, itīs very hard to explain the benefits to people accustomed to work
in a MSWindows95/NT enviroment with that gregarious mentality. But since I am
the only one who has spent some time working at first with IBM AIX and now
installing the FreeBSD unix here at home, I am the one with the "information"
and all tends toward having my idea accepted in the company.
Now the only way to change this is by showing, not how good is one compared
to the other (FreeBSD-Win/NT) but how profitable and efficient the product is.
I will start by giving them just a peek to heaven, when I succeed, FreeBSD unix
will gain a battle in this very complicated War scenario, and probably I will
gain some adepts among my colleagues and clients.
Finally, as I read this letter to my wife (who is also a collegue and works
in MVS in a bank) she quickly stepped into the room and brought me a small book
given to her while she took a week course in IBM OS/390 and showed me a very
beatiful quote in brasillian portuguese that I will translate to all of you:
"Quando voce nao sabe onde quer ir, qualquer caminho lhe leva la. Use Unix..."
which translates into:
"When you donīt know where to go, any road leads you there. Use Unix."
Greetings to all of you.
Simon.
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