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No Amount of name calling for legacy Windows
products could be anywhere even CLOSE to as fun as just calling it
"legacy".
I hate that word. I really do. It
almost pains me to use it because it was used so effectively against
Novell. And love Novell.
Anyways, we had Great Plains in today, looking to
sell an accounting package to the company I upgraded to a pure *nix
environment. Great Plains was bought by Microsoft about a year
ago.
Anyways, near the end, they asked us what we
thought, and how this compared to the AccPac demo they knew we had seen earlier
this week.
I said that I felt both would work equally well,
however I liked that AccPac allowed us to use Oracle, Pervasive, or DB2 all of
which could run on our current Linux server. I said that Great Plains
looked like a fine product but that it would require a MS SQL server that seemed
to add alot of complexity, expense, and administrative overhead with no
clear benefit over the competition. Continuing, I said that we had
upgraded from a Legacy Windows environment, and that redeploying it seemed like
a step back to the situation we had originally upgraded from.
Since everything I said was true, and everyone
around the table knew it, I almost had to look away to keep from laughing in the
sales rep's face. Even our Controller was smirking...
In one sentance, Microsoft was put in the truthful
position of offering us a step backward, inferior to the alternatives, and both
more restrictive, and more expensive (by more than triple) at the same
time. Making the Microsoft choice was immediately seen as a downgrade by
everyone around the table who had upgraded from a legacy Microsoft environment
several months ago, and Microsoft knew it. They also knew that since it
was the truth, there was no argument they could make to minimize the fact that
they were a step backward. I loved it
I vow that from this day forward, Legacy will
preceed Windows every time it is uttered from my mouth.
Where a snide Microsloth or a Micro$oft might get a
smirk or a giggle, the word legacy cost them a sale today. And "that's
where I want to go today" baby...
Any recommendation for me on what sort of hardware
I'll need for DB2? :)
What a great day...
Kev. |
- Re: (clug-talk) Ok, Aaron, I'm sold... Kevin Anderson
