> 2. provide value added services to their paying customers. corporate
> bookies still have the impression that paid software is good software
> and free software sucks. (this is the reason why M$ continues to
> dominate. it is because of the impression that "nothing free is bound
> to be good".)
>
This is so true. In my experience with clients, i actually have to put a
substancial price tag to my services in order to even get noticed.
This really sucks, especially when the local "resellers" push their
network appliances, like cacheflow, or inktomi to ISPs, costing millions
of pesos, of which there is no solid proof of performance versus an
opensource solution. I mean, these proprietary appliance caches don't
even join in on cache bake-offs to see just how good their product really
is!
And speaking of caching solutions - you'ld be surprised to know of a
suprising performer in the latest bakeoff, which i just recently read -
none other than the Win2K proxy server!
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