Any replies to this email yet? I guess they are hiring whole departments to handle floods of email like this... ;)
John Hebert -----Original Message----- From: Shannon Roddy To: [email protected] Sent: 6/14/03 10:10 AM Subject: [brlug-general] [Fwd: USENIX BoF] Here is a nice little email that I just sent off to a Solutions Architect that is employed by Microsoft. This guy showed up to the USENIX conference that I am attending in San Antonio. Dustin and I were both present at this BoF where he was pushing his wares. I hope he actually tells Bill what I asked him to. Shannon -----Forwarded Message----- > From: Shannon Roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: USENIX BoF > Date: 14 Jun 2003 10:04:36 -0500 > > Hello Jason, > > I attended your BoF at USENIX for UNIX/MS interoperability, or as you so > appropriately put it during the meeting, migration. You seemed to > indicate that you know that it boils down to interoperability, though > management sees it as migration and will not continue the project unless > it is in the guise of migration. > > On news about a week ago that M$ bought RAV Antivirus, I was immediately > concerned since I use this product on Solaris/Sendmail on my mail > server. Now I read an article today that M$ will immediately drop all > *NIX platform support from the product. Let me tell you this - If I > worked for a private company or if I was a independent consultant, I > would be having immediate thoughts of filing a lawsuit against your > employer. However, I do not. So I am basically screwed by your > monopolistic tactics. > > Now with that said, I was actually considering using some of your UNIX > services for windows software. After hearing of M$ dropping RAV > multiplatform support, I will not be evaluating your software. In fact, > you can personally tell Bill next time you see him where he can shove > his entire company for me. > > Why the hell will M$ not play nice with other platforms? Every time M$ > incorporates an open standard or some third party software into their > product, they immediately break interoperability! The company that you > work for just does not get it! You said yourself, "I know UNIX is here > to stay" so why the hell can they not get it into their heads that if > they do not interoperate and if they continue their anti-trust methods, > they are signing their own death warrant? M$ will lose the battle it > seems with Linux/*NIX/OS X/Lindows/etc as long as they keep this > attitude and behavior. > > By the way - Tell Bill thanks for the 3 beers that he gave me. He will > not be receiving a return on that investment. > > A thoroughly pissed off former RAV customer, > Shannon Roddy > > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
