| Mike Leone on Fri, 18 Oct 2002 19:22:07 -0400 |
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Fred K Ollinger (follinge@sas.upenn.edu) wrote this on 10 18, 02 at 18:55: > > > Fun. > > > > Meaningless, in a business environment. :-) > > > Actually fun was a big deal where I worked before I got where I'm at. The Take my word for it, Fred ... "fun" doesn't enter into the considerations for the vast majority of businesses. :-) If it does all the other wonderful things, and happens to be fun, great; but fun as a primary selling point would almost certainly lose you a sale. Tell them why they bother changing their current methods, what it would gain them .. and why Linux is what would gain them the *most* - that's what a businessperson wants to hear. > > > Flexible. > > > Longer history. > > > > Unix, yes. Not Linux. And yes, some people do see them as different. > > I meant the system. So that if you learned shell in 1975 you'd be ok. This > was before windows existed. If you learned windows 1.0, you'd have serious > retraining to do every up to 1995 when things stabilized. This is very > costly. Much cheaper to change one time. And if you haven't updated your knowledge sine 1975, you'd need serious re-training, too. Things like iptables, perl, object-oriented design, ODBC connections to databases, etc, didn't exist back then. (OK maybe perl would be easy for a programmer to pickup. It's still retraining) > > > Consistency. > > See above. Ditto. :-) > > > Configurability. > > I have a start menu on my desktop that says "start" and it has a windows > logo on it. Other times I have an apple on the top of the screen. > Othertimes, a smelly foot. Windows can do this, but it's a bit harder, > IMHO. > > How to stop filemanager in win2k? How to boot to console? How to eliminate > windows logo while booting win98? I know how to do all that. Any advanced Windows user would. > > > Univeral compatability. > > > > With? > > Posix. Files created in linux can usually be opened in windows, but not > vice versa. You're referring to text only files? I don't follow. > > > Privacy. > > > Piracy fears (BSA). > > > Ease of use. > > > > *nix is seen as extremely hard to use; all those arcane command line options > > to remember. > > But they are wrong. Windows may seem easy to learn, though I don't think > so. Learning all those arcane menus is hard. And it teaches less about the LOL! > underlying system b/c things are abstracted out. When I learn about Again, most Windows users don't *care* about the underlying system. Only in so far as they have to. We're talking about the target LBF market - small to medium business. Probably businesses with little to no full-time IT staff. BTW, Dell defines "medium" as something like 400 employees. I'd hope that any company that has 400 employees has at least a rudimentary IT staff. :-) > networking, I learn how to network at the same time. I picked up > networking in openbsd really fast. I'll never forget that weekend I tried > to configure a win2k box as a router (and failed). I figured that I was > going to get an honorary mcse. In the end, I found out that we needed > win2k server not win2k pro. Where to download that? I _don't_ pirate sw, > btw. Then you don't know you don't download (non-evaluations) of commercial, closed-source software. :-) > > > VB support. > > > > *nix has VB support? > > No, many people see lack of VB support to be an advantage. :) Oh, so you meant "lack of VB vulnerabilities". Actually, that's more like "lack of VBScript vulnerabilities" - bit different. > Oh, here's another advantage to MS: cooler names for things. "Patch" is a > "service pack". We're not fixing bugs, we are dealing with "issues". We Service Pack is a large collection of patches, not a single patch. > are adding "services" in "packs". :) Who's going to take OSS seriously > when they show all their bugs like a badge of honor instead of hiding them > under animations? > > Seriously, I wish all the business people the best, I know you will go > far. But I'm happy to just take orders and do my fun stuff at home. As I always say ... me staff. :-) -- PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF Member, LEAF Project <http://leaf.sourceforge.net> AIM: MikeLeone Public Key - <http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.asc> Registered Linux user# 201348 Attachment:
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