Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:56:47 -0700 From: "Haikal Saadh" <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com> To: <advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: A depressing thought.. Message-ID: <002b01bff7eb$ad67cee0$a3a593cb@timberwolf>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ...seems to be that people are not choosing their platform based on technical merit anymore... Case in point: I had lunch with some friends the other day. and one of the blokes was this guy (visiting from norway, I think) whose company works with ASP and other MS technology. Now according to him, when they started out, they approached Sun and Oracle (among others, no mention of anything BSD) for contracts. And the reason why they chose to go MS was because that MS offered them _FREE_ 90 licences for everything, and a free support and consulting for 90 days, among other things which cannot recall at the moment, whereas everyone else was rather slack in offering them anything similar, despite having (arguably) technically superior products. This sucks. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>; iQA/AwUBOYBpzmDp/0spTtEtEQKvSACgjf5cSui9XhuDiMJXGyNdtgDSbFgAoP21 m7DbL4r4MYX4psNEG/kXWlV9 =fKFn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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