Oss Master Well Done. You have truly made my day, and my weekend also. :-)
Cheers Szemir On Thursday 17 October 2002 19:00, you wrote: > 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. ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
