On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:38:58 +0100 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip> > The main question I have about this PDF is, "Who is it aimed at?" The > people who have to authorize the switchover from whatever is on the > servers now to Gentoo? The people that have to pay for the training of > the personel who have to administer the servers? The personnel > themselves (as an introduction)? I have cut out the company information header and other "private information", its a document for the people who have to authorize the switchover from RedHat to Gentoo. I'm new in this company and have found a lot of bad configured RedHat machines and replaced them with Gentoo. Now i must explain my choose. > All the points are clear and well-made, but without a focus, it's hard > to judge the paper as a whole. I mean, those who have to authorize > payment don't care about source-based vs. RPM, those who are concerned Its been asked to be technical > about whether they have support need assurance that the personnel who > will now be responsible for support *can* be trained to adequately > provide it (whereas under RedHat, RH takes care of that), those who > actually have to learn how to use either Gentoo or RH just want the > facts-- and in a corporate environment no one cares whether or not > Frozen Bubble is available or easy to install :-D , fools that they are, > lol. > > The document as it stands doesn't "sell" Gentoo to anybody in > particular, it just says, Gentoo is better than RedHat, without > reference to the specific needs of those you're speaking to. So it > doesn't tell those specific people why Gentoo is better than RedHat *for > them*. But you certainly have pretty much all the good points covered. > They just need to be targeted to your audience. > > Am I making sense? Yes > > Holly > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > > Thanks Holly for these points (and the others) Patrick -- "Live long and prosper, Spock." -- T'Pau "I shall do neither. I have killed my captain, and my friend." -- Spock Fingerprint = 2792 057F C445 9486 F932 3AEA D3A3 1B0C 1059 273B ICQ# 316932703 Registered Linux User #44550 http://counter.li.org
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