Its not that I believe that everyone will start calling MS for support instead of SuSE. Its that they will market it that they can and then those who do not know better will call them for support.
There is a lot of bias out there from Sys Admins that think using anything but MS is a joke. They bash on Macs and Linux all the time. I think its fair to say that MS puts a lot of FUD out and these people are not going to get accurate info when they do call MS for Linux support. If I wanted I could (knowledge permitting) start a company and I can offer support services to almost anything out there. If I do a bad job, who looks bad? It won't be just me. Plus now they can fudge with the numbers. They can offer 2003 Server Support for $999 and SLES support for $1999. Then they can say Linux is not as cost effective you might think. I know I'm being negative towards MS but come on, I'm just speaking from my experience regarding my opinion. Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice... On 11/2/06, Joel Brauer <[email protected]> wrote:
Why? Don't get me wrong, I'm not Micro$oft fanboy. But realistically what can Microsoft do to harm it? If they do things to SuSE that screws it up, then ya know, I'll just use Ubuntu. Wait, that's what I'm doing... oh well. But the point is that open source goes hand in hand with freedom and liberty. If some stupid company tries to come in, throw around power and mess stuff up, then we simply go another direction. Which we are free to do. So either they play nice, or they're irrelevant. -joel On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 13:59 -0800, Chris Louden wrote: > This upsets me greatly. > > On 11/2/06, Chris Louden <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here is a WSJ article > > > > http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116249026689311557-helTbrheLKgbaJ5iO5z40ZFCiOs_20061109.html?mod=blogs > > > > > > > > On 11/2/06, Randall Whitman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/3d1Xk6mH0qpczwqbqLsR4kJ > > > > I'm baffled. > > > > Why would Microsoft do *anything* to help out a Linux provider. > > > > What makes Microsoft even remotely qualified to provide "sales support" > > > > for SUSE Linux? > > > > The questions go on and on... > > > > > > After Oracle made their announcement the other day, > > > I joked to myself that Microsoft would be next. > > > But yeah, I'm surprised and curious too. > > > > > > Microsoft bought part of Apple. > > > Microsoft bought part of Intuit. > > > Comparable or not comparable? > > > > > > ============== > > > > > > aside: I worked for Oracle from 1994-1997. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 909linux mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 909linux mailing list > [email protected] > http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux -- Joel Brauer Manager - IS Communications and Web Technologies Loma Linda University [email protected] cell: 909-534-1934 pager: [email protected]
