"Dave Kempe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Possibly your first sentence is why very few, if any, people responded?
>
> On reflection I can understand that very much. I am not a salesman I don't
> like sales, but I do think that in order for Linux to gain mindshare it
> needs to be sold. Not sold by technical people like the residents of this
> list, but by the average computer salesman who probably doesn't know what
> hes talking about. I have come to this unfortunate conclusion thru studying
> the sales cycle of other similar products, and realising that some people
> are great at selling stuff, others aren't. Those that are great salespeople,
> generally aren't great technical people, I spose if they were they wouldn't
> be in sales! :/ This is of course is just my opinion based on very limited
> observation.
that's about the size of it.
Although I am constantly amazed at the number of people who run
the little suburbian PC shops who handle everything from sales
and advice to basic technical stuff who obviously know absolutely
jackshit about PCs. I can only recall having come across one
who knew more than I do about PCs, and I class my knowledge of PC
hardware type stuff as minimal (ie. the minimum amount required
to get by).
A good one I recall from not that long ago was my search to buy
a SCSI cd writer. I wanted SCSI, apart from it being way better
than IDE, to connect it to my sparc5. I remember one guy trying
to sell me an IDE writer ("they're much cheaper so why would you
want SCSI?") and claiming I could just get the right cable to
convert a IDE ribbon connector to SCSI honda 50pin (and of
course I wasn't at all surprised when he'd never heard of sparc
machines or indeed of Sun at all).
Dave.
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