Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 13:04:54 +0100 (BST) From: Ben Cohen <bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk> To: "John T. Farmer" <jfarmer@goldsword.com> Cc: billy@idiom.com, fpawlak@execpc.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD A Solution For Business Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.980524130240.18804B-100000@red.csi.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <199805232343.TAA05828@sabre.goldsword.com>
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>To paraphrase a quote from my younger days in the industry: > > "Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft..." > >The simple truth is that shops that would be swayed by such arguements >are already running or considering running Solaris, Idrix, HPUX, Aix, etc. >That is, shops that are already willing to consider a non-Microsoft >solution. In any case we can always find examples of people who *were* fired for buying Microsoft; for example, I seem to remember a URL (from this list) about banks (NatWest in Britain and something in Australia, I think) which started to use NT and had massive problems, resulting in the person responsible being fired. Ben. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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