On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:14 AM, joebert jacaba <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Orlando Andico <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> It's not about skill. It's about the confidence level of >> line-of-business users. Your confidence in your skillset is irrelevant >> to the highest echelons of large companies. > > i would like to change where they base their confidence level. it > should not be on how much money a company has to buy compliance but on > the philosophy behind the solution. in my own little way.
Joebert, It can be done, but in the real world it is very hard to do. I used to be a young grasshopper and idealistic. Have become a pragmatic guy... dedicated logic and common sense, and suffer the consequence whether it's good or bad. But there is still some idealism left. Give it another 10 years, you become a skeptic and shout "Get off my lawn!" :) Companies don't buy software because of philosophy of "Open Source" or it's free, they buy it based on support, scalability and features. They don't ask, "is this FAX Machine hardware or software open source?". It's like attempting to use Zimbra because it's Open Source to replace MS Exchange... and your boss is scratching his head why, when 25,000 of the company uses MS Exchange and they are okay with it. But you sometimes gamble to thrust Open Source software because you know it's the right tool for the right job. Like when I pushed to include rsync on one of the key software to manage almost a thousand physical servers on Solaris, AIX and HP-UX everyday on a bank. In retrospect, It was a bit preposterous, putting my job on the line. But hey, you know it works you pushed for it slowly but surely. regards, Andre _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
