On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 21:14, HaywireMac wrote: > Quote: > > "Corporate IT budgets have become paralyzed by their resistance to > monolithic, all-or-nothing upgrades accompanied by painful services > interruptions and unexpected cost overruns. Their obstinacy has been > learned by hard experience, and is caused by the near ubiquitous use of > Microsoft software in business." > > http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/032238
Look - last year when MicroSCOft smeared the media with "Microsoft's lower TCO" I'd already been through it dozens of times since 1992; it's part of their business model - business plan. MicroSCOft has consistently shown (and continues to do so) that they have absolutely no care about the "end user" or whether or not their software is stable or secure - it's about selling, current sales and future sales. Nothing more. They're cutting their own throats and don't even realise that they're actually causing a major decline in "Windows innovation"; which is really too bad. All of this is only good for the likes of me because I'm not having to push or convince people by much about using OSS/GNU/linux based software or services or OS's...slowly but surely, "Joe Sixpack" small biz owner is realising that M$ has and is blowing brown steam, lip service and false promises... This arvo I went to the Illawarra Computer Enthusiasts first day meeting - and, as has become my ritual, recited the latest threats, viruses and trojan alerts - beginning with "I have to apologise for once again having to spout off about the gloom and doom that's out there waiting for y'all" (which the ladies love cuz of my accent) - but instead of catching shit later from some of the blokes about "Gosh, you're an MS Slammer, ain't ya?" - more and more people are seeking an alternative to either Internet Explorer, MS Outlook, MS Outlook Express - or even to Windows out and out. Remember, these ain't no techies - just "end users" that want to know more about their computers and how to use them - and today I had several requests to do a live presentation doing an installation of linux (still up in the air as to which distro I'll choose - so I might ask for the advise of some of y'all here)(bad joke)...but the interest is finally getting down to the public. They're sick and tired of the BS game. Christ, some folks there still are running Win95 because they ain't got the money to upgrade their machines and certainly ain't got the money to upgrade the damn OS (not that I didn't offer them a *demo* copy of whatever OS they wanted...)...so go figure on the TCO bit... I'll hop offa the soapbox now...just been stewing over this shit more and more and it ain't getting better...but at least I'm comforted in the fact that I ain't getting hit with no nasties, my email client ain't relaying shit for some no-name f-wit somewhere in BFE, and no one is casually capturing my keystrokes remotely...and what did I pay for my OS? Nothing. What did I pay for the three office suites I got? Nothing. Hmmm...seems that the TCO here at home is certainly a bit lower than say what the next door neighbours are having to deal with... /end silly rant stephen kuhn - owner ============================== illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents ------------------------------------------------------------------ Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. -- Mark Twain
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