After many years of working for the financial sector, please don't be too
angry at me for stating my opinion in financial terms:
There is a company A that has some software that it wants to promote.
Therefore, company A considers education and information as a "cost center".
Company A makes (almost) all tech info freely available over Internet.
Everyone is welcome to read and learn. Many young people, especially from
low-income countries (as my country) read, get some skills, get a job in a
higher-developed country and promote the products of company A.
Company B wants to make more money than A. Therefore it makes training and
education a "profit center". It makes it's source of technical info "MetaB"
available only to contract-holders with deep pockets. Most of the seasoned
professionals agree that "B" software is better than "A". But many young
and bright people find that it's easier and cheaper for them to learn the
(inferior) products of company "A".
Now the rich investor comes. (S)he knows that B products are technically
superior, but on the market there is A experience, free A support, free A
source of information. Therefore the deep pocketed guy(gal) goes for A.
IMHO, probably company B has better technology, but A has better marketing
strategy and market development. And I am very sad to see lesser
technologies come to prosperity. I hope that some wise guy at B would say
"OK folks, we are opening all the info we have, we want all the young and
bright people to have the possibility to study our technology, even if they
have not the means to pay for the information. We are providing an
affordable way for youngsters to become a B professionals". Could it be a
wise (and profitable) investment????
Dr. Nikolay Kumanov
MIS Manager, Zeitungsgruppe Bulgarien GmbH
47, Tsarigradsko chaussee, Sofia 1504, Bulgaria
phone: +(359-2)4339-643, fax: +(359-2)946-1286
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