On Saturday 04 March 2006 2:28 pm, Philip Tellis wrote: > Sometime on Mar 3, Dinesh Joshi assembled some asciibets to say: > > On Thursday 02 March 2006 08:06, JTD wrote: > >> As usual we support only linux. > > > > I have no intention of taking this thread off track but IMHO your > > statement doesnt sound right. You ought to support Windows as > > well. Not > > It is a business. They get paid for it.
Running our systems on GNU/Linux ensures that post install maintanence is reduced to a minimum and systems failures are near zero. Hence we can price systems cheaper. > They have a right to > support whatever limited market segment that they want to and to > refuse business from whoever they want to. The market is not limited due to the use of linux at all. Most customers don't care what os is running on the backend subject to reliability being maintained. Roughly 5% of customers will specify M$ backend. Here too talking to the purchase dept. usually results in removal of such clauses. It is only where extraneous factors creep in we are locked out. Most suppliers buy ready made stuff from Taiwan or China which come preloaded with M$ junk. Removing this and loading linux is "non trivial". So they are effectively trapped. -- rgds jtd -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
