On 10/01/2012 11:07 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote: > On 01-10-12 16:22, Pertti Rönnberg wrote: >> Hello Joep, >> Thank you for your reply. >> I am happy to say I had the privilege to in business visit your very >> beautiful and interesting country - and especially Amsterdam - some >> times very, very many years ago. >> I am also retired since ten years back and used to work on manager level >> in some companies mostly in metal industry, planning and delivering >> plants. >> But not IT, I am an IT consumer since early 1980 - so you surely know >> that IT field from 'inside' better than me but I know quite well the >> decision making in my former environments. >> >> I have for years been very well aware of all what you say about MS's >> behavior and marketing policy - I agree with you completely and do >> dislike the situation as much as you. >> In many (most) companies/organizations (other than IT) the managers have >> quite little own knowledge in IT why they do not have many alternatives: >> they have to buy the IT from outside (more or less) experts or build up >> a IT-dept of their own. In both cases they have to rely on other >> people's knowhow and recommendations. >> And if all (95% ?) your important contacts, customers, officials, >> private, etc. use Windows, and all of your own staff know (only) >> Windows/MSO then the economic calculation says that you must "talk the >> same language" -- you can not afford anything else. >> >> I strongly disagree with you about Jay's and Wolfgang' s behavior - take >> a look at my parallel post "MS problems" some minutes earlier. >> If these managers concentrate on their own jobs - and buy the IT - it >> does not qualify them to be called "IT-illiteral morons" as Jay and >> Wolfgang did. >> >> In 30 years I have had no problems (!) with the Windows' programs (the >> cost are a relative matter), but from January this year when installing >> LibO I have had too much problems with Base (and Calc) - and according >> to this list there are a lot of others having real problems with LibO >> too. >> In my opinion there is only one way for LibO: to become in every way >> better than MSO especially for ordinary private users, user friendly, >> stable, reliable, free of bugs and problems. These will then make it >> easier for companies to convert to OpenSource/LibO. >> Best regards >> Pertti Rönnberg (Finland) >> The End! >> > > Well Pertti, > Endangering myself to go after your End(!) I have never used Microsoft > products except when clients needed to have links with WIndows > programs but I lived in luxury as we represented Silicon Graphics an > the products we sold and supported either specific or Internet > related. However I must confess that for administrative tasks we used > Windows related applications (WordPerfect and some Borland related > spreadsheets programs) as the unix workstations were used either for > graphics or network-related tasks. > But I remember our technical people all grumbling about the lousy > Windows as OS and they preferred to let some whizzkid we had as > apprentice to solve Windows problems. > Before I had my company (~ '75 - '90) I was head of a neuroscience > department where we did real-time signal analysis on EEG-signals and > all systems (Intel 286) used DOS as OS for the programs (mostly > FORTRAN & PASCAL).Further signal analysis was done on a PDP-11's so > we're talking about another era where PC's barely existed. There is a > nice anecdote about the CEO of DEC who was presented with a "PC" (the > DEC-1) in '79 and he refused to take it into production as he was > convinced that nobody would buy such a toy! Little did he know..... > Joep > > > Ken Olson of DEC (paraphrasing) said that he did not see why people would need or want a computer in their homes (or PC's workstations in the office). Of course DEC sold mini-computers and networked PC's would eventually destroy that market. DEC is one of many dead computer companies.
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