On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 12:11 -0300, Marcos Dione wrote:
> yes, that's the best way, and I always advise this when someone
> asks me... but in major companies and goverment they always like to have a
> "we're the better" company (IBM, HP, Compaq) to blame when things doesn't
> work... of course one can solve the problem, but as the machines have
> warrantiy seals and one can open them... yes, they like to wait a couple
> of weeks till service comes.
That's because management and beancounters think in other ways
than people who just want to get the work done.
For management and beancounters the priority no.1 question is:
Is the contractor (or manufacturer or store) large enough to pay
if we have to sue him in case of malperformance?
So the fact whether the product is superiour or not counts only
as priority no.2. That's why they tend to buy from large
companies rather than to give a chance to an upstart.
BTW, that's been a big barrier for Linux to get into large
corporations. My boss kept saying "who do we sue if Linux
crashes our databases? Linus T.?" and so he ordered WinNT.
wobo
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