Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 May 1999 20:50:14 +0200 | From | Kurt Garloff <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Comments to WinNT Mag !! |
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On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 10:30:54PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > What Microsoft has been able to do is produce a "fuzzy" Microsoft > Environment by charging customers for "technical training", producing > a clique of so-called "experts". They then advertise that, if you > don't have Microsoft-trained persons on your staff, you are risking > everything. This will continue. I suggest that the major Linux > Distributors and VARS do the same thing. This will add a "presence" > that does not yet exist. It will allow VARS to make a bit more money > and give customers the warm fuzzy feeling they are used to getting > from Microsoft. These customers might learn a bit more than they > would from Microsoft because the training would involve more than > learning to recover from continual Windows crashes.
Let me just say that you hit the point very exactly.
That's what a lot of companies really want: Somebody telling them how good their OS is (using many nice-looking words like Total Cost of Ownership, Scalability, AIO...). And selling them well-trained people with some certificate making the managers sleep well in spite of a unreliable system ...
Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> Linux kernel development SCSI driver: DC390 (tmscsim/AM53C974) [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |