You, sir, are a cynic

Post #271,927 by drewk 11/2/06 9:30:20 PM Reply	You, sir, are a cynic This lets them position themselves in that market, while making sure that the technology doesn't look as good as going straight Windows. That pretty much sums it up. Just try sometime next year to pitch a large corporate client on going with Ubuntu or even Red Hat. The "obvious" reaction will be, "Well, the supported way to do that is Microsoft / Novell." Then when it doesn't work, the "obvious" reaction will be, "I guess Linux isn't ready after all." === Kip Hawley is still an idiot. === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #271,948 by Ashton 11/2/06 10:40:01 PM Reply	And you are both pretty s c a r y this far after Hallowe'en The bowels of the Beast are so intuitively ingrained in these parts that.. youse guysngals can extrapolate Bally's wet dreams - in your sleep. Imagine.. if just a few suits ackshully read (say, for a start: just Andrew's nicely annotated aaxnet.com summary of how we all got Toy Software Forever?) Sure.. a Suit not Being a Suit!
Post #271,977 by Simon_Jester 11/3/06 12:33:58 AM Reply	The problem is .... that while every tech and his brother knows Microsoft isn't to be trusted and that in the end, it'll backstab Novell... A bean-counter...who cares only what the next quarter (or next couple of quarters), look at the deal and points out, "Hey, it add legitimacy against RedHat and it's bound to be good for a couple of mill." Of course, by then, said bean-counter will be long gone.

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