On 9/22/06, krishnakant Mane researchbase@gmail.com wrote:
". so they wont care for open or close standards. un ko kuch padi nahin hain freedom ki. Krishnakant.
Right. All they care about is money. So anything that generates money without any problems is music to their ears.
It might help you to do a cost analysis for their specific business and show them how much it helps them make _more_ money. not save money. Remember more money speaks everything. Quote MS information for creating huge TCO for maintaining MS stuff. Use latest MS products for costing. Add duties to hardware.. give a breakup and show how bleak their future is, now that NOBODY is going to support win98 and soon 2000 ....
Oh and while you are at it you might tell them how MS is hunting down customers with pirated software and spread every possible FUD about pirated software crackdowns and quoting the fines and how so and so got jacked. And also about patents.
So keep pestering and spreading the word. Its a trickle down effect and not a quick switch. We do our job of spreading the word and the people forced to use MS look up to us at work ;)
regards, C