On 9/24/06, krishnakant Mane researchbase@gmail.com wrote:
dude, with gnu/linux every one is a gold customer. and the support is quick enough. if you by it from redhat, they help you. and even before they do, ask the community such as ilug.
You don't need to convince me. Convince the corporates, they're the ones you're trying to pitch the idea to. They want one rock solid support source that will do the job for them, not a whole lot of sources some of whom might help incase of a problem while others may not. Microsoft, unfortunately, provides them with exactly what they require.
yes a golden cage indeed? and just give all ur data to the biggest spy whare"M$". today I am only waiting for that beautiful screen reader called orca. and listen m$ guys, the moment that is released in late november, ur windows days on my computer are gone!
You are full of hostility. Why are you using this forum to vent your anger with Microsoft, whatever the reasons for that maybe? Not a very mature approach. I believe the topic under discussion is how to market GNU/Linux to corporates. Not bashing the competitor.
this is the problem of an organisation not of gnu/linux. and I will give you many cases of m$ of a similar case. and the biggest example is "we are coming up with a new version. buy it and get ur problem solved (with millions of other security bugs)." this is m$ for you my dear, this is m$ for you.
Standard answer that we hear about in every microsoft bashing session. But this answer doesn't solve the customers problem. The customer wants results, not ideology.
by the way does m$ vorent that all ur data will be safe? does sun do it? do they not say "for all damages, including but not limited to consiquential, insidental, punitive bla bla sun or its licensers will not be liable or responsible?"
That's not the point. The company doesn't want another refusal of service on the basis of a clause that states that one distro of Linux is supported and the other is not. Also, the company is looking for accountability. If it adopts a software for a longterm solution someone has to be resposible for maintainance. They would be more confortable dealing with another corporate than a team of hackers who do this for fun.
may be this is one case of sun or redhat. but again why did the company not turn to the community? and unlike windows which is only provided by M$ gnu/linux has so many enterprise brands to select from. an enterprise level system can be run very well by debian for example. Ubuntu is a good choice, as is IBM Linux. what do you say?
I say that the company did not turn to the community because it's not the CEO's grandmother's PC. It is a production server with customers critical data. Agreed that Microsoft won't take responsibility for data loss, backups will take care of that. But Microsoft will always be there. The hacker who wrote a software will not always be there, and there is no guarantees that someone else may take over from him. Think from the customers POV and try to convince him then. You are trying to market a product, not force your ideology on them.