On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, David Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The company I have been working at now (for a bit over 6 mths now) is a
> largish (~$150Mil/year) national IT company deal in everything from
> Hardware, Software and services.  But...very Windows centric much to my
> disappointment.
>
> Needless to say word has spread in the Office I am "..the Linux guy"
>
> The Owner of the company has gave Linux thought and some how was tipped
> over the edge recently and called a meeting with a few key staff members
> hers and ..... me.
>
> So I am now doing a demo of Ubuntu in the Friday morning sales meeting!
>
>
> Any tips or points for catching the attention of mostly IT 'dumb' ales
> staff ?  I am thinking Beryl/Compiz, the mention of no spyware and
> viruses and the backing of big name companies like Dell, IBM and Novell.
>
> Any advice welcome; really want to do the best for Linux and open source
> here and get it into this company.

You could send them to CeBIT[1], where there will be plenty of people talking 
about and demonstrating FOSS at the Linux Australia stand :) 


[1] http://www.cebit.com.au/

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