On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, 013-Danny Lieberman wrote:
> 1) Dont get seducted into bashing
> Linux and Open Source people tend to be zealots - and bash MSFT with no
> apparent reason
> besides hating Bill Gates and XP SP2 for writing buggy software.
>
> 2) Give economic reasons not ideological reasons:
neglecting the ideological issue completely is, well, not such a good
idea. much of your "open source software" wouldn't have been there,
without the ideology.
> We choose Linux and Open Source because its a good fit for us.
> In addition tothe economic benefit of not having to pay for licenses you
> can rely on the open source
> community for support - almost always with better quality and response times
> than big closed source vendors
> OR
> you can rely on local expert vendors (like you) whocan give personalized
> local support and
> whose livelihood depends on it (as opposed to some customer support
> representative in India who could care less).
>
> Better quality support translates to lower TCO and higher success rates for
> product development
don't mention the word TCO ("whatever you say, don't mention the war").
you can, however, mention the ministry of education's signing with
microsoft on a very reduced price, as a win for open source - without the
open source, the ministry of education would have had to pay the older
higher prices - so open source brings competetion where a monopoly does
not allow competetion via normal capitalistic means.
--
guy
"For world domination - press 1,
or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
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