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SubjectRe: [OT] Comments to WinNT Mag !!
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)
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