Well Said, John. Rather than taking the "bashing" approach to M$, the better tact would be to SHOW business's how they can benefit from Linux in a more secure O/S, and from a monitary standpoint in NOT having to by expensive, "buggy", software, that just does not "cut it" in the computer world.
One way would be to put on a demonstration of Linux at Sheauxs, conventions, etc. that showed off the better parts of Linux and NOT just show how to play Quake, Doom, etc. Don't get me wrong, games are fun, but NOT in a business environment. If a company's employees are playing "games" during productive "work time", the company is losing money. Show how Open Office works instead, what advantages can be gained by not having to protect their computers from the M$ variety of "viruses", "worms", "Trogans", etc., and how they can protect their networks from being "hacked." Instead of constatly trashing M$, take the "high road", and promote Linux. THIS might even open up some jobs for you as a System Admin. Who knows? "Cap'n Buck" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20030925/352ad54c/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 25 10:58:02 2003 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sonja Solomon) Date: Thu Sep 25 09:58:42 2003 Subject: [brlug-general] Let's bash M$ again! References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Information Week's feature this week is basicly "We're tired of Microsoft patches and we'er not going to take it anymore." ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 8:52 AM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Let's bash M$ again! Well Said, John. Rather than taking the "bashing" approach to M$, the better tact would be to SHOW business's how they can benefit from Linux in a more secure O/S, and from a monitary standpoint in NOT having to by expensive, "buggy", software, that just does not "cut it" in the computer world. One way would be to put on a demonstration of Linux at Sheauxs, conventions, etc. that showed off the better parts of Linux and NOT just show how to play Quake, Doom, etc. Don't get me wrong, games are fun, but NOT in a business environment. If a company's employees are playing "games" during productive "work time", the company is losing money. Show how Open Office works instead, what advantages can be gained by not having to protect their computers from the M$ variety of "viruses", "worms", "Trogans", etc., and how they can protect their networks from being "hacked." Instead of constatly trashing M$, take the "high road", and promote Linux. THIS might even open up some jobs for you as a System Admin. Who knows? "Cap'n Buck" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20030925/e3c4f4b3/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 25 10:56:11 2003 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dustin Puryear) Date: Thu Sep 25 10:24:02 2003 Subject: [brlug-general] Let's bash M$ again! In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] port 111> At 06:12 AM 9/25/2003 -0500, you wrote: >However, after reading the article, I would like to state that government >regulation of Microsoft is not the answer. The answer is for affected >companies to migrate away from Microsoft towards other operating systems >that address the faults of Microsoft in the first place. > >I would like to know: What keeps companies using Microsoft? What is the >overriding factor in the decision to purchase Microsoft as opposed to >other operating systems? For one, companies already have a large investment in Microsoft and related technologies. --- Dustin Puryear Puryear Information Technology, LLC http://www.puryear-it.com Providing expertise in the management, integration, and security of Windows and UNIX systems, networks, and applications.
