On 19 Feb, Rev Simon Rumble scribbled:
-> On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 04:53:33PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
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-> > they COULD - but that would be breaking the developmnet line and just
-> > cause problems because people now have 2 different competing versions
-> > of software and dont know which one to use etc. etc. etc.
->
-> Okay so these stupid customers don't care what they're running. So
-> where's the problem? I really don't see anything that would hold back
-> Linux in the commercial realm. Most new features are "nice" things,
-> not mission critical.
oh.. the do care.. they just dont understand and get confused easily.
trust me :)
-> IMHO the only customers who can demand, and get, definite release
-> dates from software companies are the REALLY big computing customers.
thats not reality tho :)
-> I'm not talking Fortune 500 companies worried about their desktops but
-> people like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley with massive amounts of
-> money invested in their hardware and big relationships with their
-> suppliers. These are the only people for whom this would ever be a
-> problem as they need to squeeze out the last ounce of performance.
->
-> They're also intelligent enought to understand the dynamics of the
-> development process themselves. If they chose to go with Linux, it
-> wouldn't be a poorly thought out decision.
->
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