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Re: [PLUG] OT: Linux Business Forum
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My uncle is a IT manager for a major pharmaceutical company Covance in King
of Prussia. I've been trying to turn him onto Linux for years now without
any success. If a company has a million dollars to spend on software the
users of the software aren't going to speak up to management and say hey we
can get Linux which is more stable and cheaper to operate. The only way open
source is going to pass companies like Moneysoft and Oracle is for Linux
user to work our way into management positions.
I use Windows at work only cause Autodesk wont release software on Linux.
Big companies don't want to spend the extra money to support different OS's.
A program like Autocad 2002 which is 12+ years in the making, would make a
Open source type cad system very hard to move to.
----- Original Message -----
From: "William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] OT: Linux Business Forum
> On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at 04:45 PM, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> > I finally made the plunge into the business world. My business is
> > heavily
> > focused on bridging Windows & Linux for businesses. I think that Linux
> > has
> > a bright future in business and am wondering if there is any interest
> > in
> > creating a Philadelphia are Linux Business Forum? I'm not exactly sure
> > what this forum would be or do, but I think it would be a resource for
> > networking and business contacts for those of use who sell Linux
> > related
> > goods and services. Does something like this already exist? Is there
> > interest among the PLUG membership? Is this a topic that can be kept
> > inside PLUG itself instead of as an offshoot? Please let me know your
> > thoughts.
>
> Yes. This is an absolute necessity. It's actually one of the major
> reasons why Linux is not taken seriously in business. Linux users are
> still (even with IBM and Compaq's involvement) viewed as a bunch of
> smelly hackers by the suits. Even Dell has realized that Steven does
> not play well in the Enterprise market. (He is not in any of the Dell
> Server ads, and the references to Robot Wars are really subtle...)
>
> As someone mentioned -- Management needs to hear THEIR buzzwords --
> like ROI, rduced budget expenditures, disaster tolerance and break even
> point -- in the justification for a new system... not merely gigabytes
> of RAID or CPU megahertz and RAM.
>
> Personally, I would wait until LISA next month. (Nov 3-8 at the
> Convention center
> http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/ - Discounted, registration ends
> FRIDAY 10/18)
>
> Plan to set up a BOF via the bulletin boards -- Use the name you
> proposed "Philadelphia area Linux Business Forum". And see how many
> outside of PLUG you can get to sign up.
>
> There's no reason that it cannot/shouldnot meet as a BOF of PLUG... at
> least until there is a big enough crowd that wants to meet someplace
> else.
>
> I can envision that the topics for presentations would be things like
> -- how to propose Linux so that the Board of Directors will let you buy
> it.
>
> Keep me on your list of interested parties.
>
> T.T.F.N.
> William H. Magill
> magill@mcgillsociety.org
> magill@acm.org
> magill@mac.com
>
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