Op wo, 16-08-2006 te 17:10 -0500, schreef Rich Johnson:
> On Wednesday 16 August 2006 14:55, John Baer wrote:
> > I was speaking not long ago with an Information Officer for an
> > organization in the Midwest (US) with supports about 30,000 Windows
> > desktops. I poised the question, have you or would you ever consider
> > deploying a linux desktop? She smiled and responded by saying the only
> > Information Officer she was aware of to attempt this is now seeking
> > employment.
"Yay!" to self-fulfilling prophesies...
> To be honest, Ubuntu isn't the only one that has a bug #1, it truthfully
> isn't
> original, but that doesn't matter, it is a way for the Developers to have a
> little fun. Just so you know, Microsoft has Linux Torvalds as the biggest bug
> Microsoft has to face, the developers that is. Their developers also have
> blogs, and a community just like ours.
>
> You want to know the difference?
>
> WE ARE OPEN, THEY AREN'T!
>
> The proof is in the pudding, the expression goes. Google the developer blogs
> for Microsoft. I have read through quite a few of them, and truthfully it
> reminds me of old Al Gore campaign commercials, BORING and ROBOTIC like.
Actually, I read some Microsoft blogs that aren't boring (at least to
me), like Raymond Chen's ("The Old New Thing").
<http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/>
(I learned more about Windows from his blog than from reading MSDN &
books about Windows.)
> John, I am sorry to see you go truthfully as your creative design and
> marketing detail was a welcome. There is a big difference between
> conventional marketing and open source marketing. I am having a hard time
> myself trying to grasp this concept. Every concept I learned going for my MBA
> was totally different then what is going on here, but I know well that some
> of those concepts will work. I am used to a "Marketing Plan", and following
> and adding to the plan as you go. Here there is no plan, it is all go! Hard
> to get used to I know.
I don't have an MBA or anything, but I don't see much difference between
open source and closed source marketing. Both use centrally coordinated
publicity campaigns and grassroots "goodwill" based marketing, depending
on their financial possibilities.
Clever companies (or clever departments in companies) support this
grassroots marketing (Microsoft's newsgroups, Team Borland, some
successful open source projects).
And those who don't have this grassroots marketing try to fake or force
it and are almost always put in public naked... ;-)
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