From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jul 26 16:55:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from wondermutt.net (host75-157.student.udel.edu [128.175.75.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B7F837B54B for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:55:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from papalia@udel.edu) Received: from morgaine.udel.edu (morgaine.wondermutt.net [192.168.1.2]) by wondermutt.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA96944; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:56:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from papalia@udel.edu) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000726195119.00aba6d0@mail.udel.edu> X-Sender: papalia@mail.udel.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:53:24 -0400 To: "Haikal Saadh" , From: John Subject: Re: A depressing thought.. In-Reply-To: <002b01bff7eb$ad67cee0$a3a593cb@timberwolf> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >...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. My personal favorite statement so far came out of the mouth of the technical director of a IT venture captial company I was working with at one point. When the question of server OS came up for a network we were building, the instruction (not suggestion) was: "Go with NT. After all, it's a Bill Gates World." I think I almost screamed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message