Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 08:15:56 +0100 From: "Karl M. Joch" <k.joch@kmjeuro.com> To: "freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: salesman is thinking..... Message-ID: <01BD69D9.0C63F8E0@wsjk01.kmjeuro.com>
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I think the main difference is in the 3 different views (sure more are to find) on a product: 1. PROGRAMMERS AND ADMINS: they want a stable system with a lot of features to make their daily job easier. they are able to compile programs and doing programming. 2. THE DEALERS: they need to make money with selling Hardware. They want an Operating system, they can easily setup with not to much headache coming up when the system is at the customer. 3. THE USER: sometimes we all forget the user. but in fact we all have our systems running because of the users!. they want a workstation/pc where they can switch on and click to start word processing, spreadsheet and their commercial package. (most of them don?t do more). users are normally not interested in programming and daily operating work. but to increase the installed base of freebsd i think it is necceary to get more USERS to have it. this means that a quick setup version of something called "business workstation" must be available for them. easy to setup and no maintanance in daily work. more users are only possible if the dealers will sell their computers with this package. FreeBSD has a lot of advantages for dealers witch NT or Win9x doesn?t have: - no licencing troubles - lot of free applications available - AND THE REAL INTERESTING THING FOR THEM: they can sell their products cheaper! if more dealers will give out computers with FreeBSD, more users will use it and then also more programmers/admins are required. so all fits together . in detail a lot more things would be required like: multilanguage support, different applications and support. ..... only thoughts of a marketing/salesman. Karl M. Joch k.joch@kmjeuro.com (Austria) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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