On Saturday, October 06, 2012 11:36:38 AM Jay Lozier wrote: > On 10/06/2012 03:57 AM, Dr. R. O Stapf wrote: > > I think the market share of MSO has nothing to do with the users being > > idiots or not. The 90% share is caused by 3 things > > 1 - When you buy a PC you often get the MSO already pre-installed > > 2 - Not many people know about alternatives. I only learned about OO > > and LO from my brother who is a IT wizard. While talking to people > > about me utilization of LO I am always experiecing that almost all > > people do not know about OO or LO or other packages. > > 3 - Many IT departments in companies choose MSO because it is easily > > available and they consider the support as good. Keep in mind that > > introduction of an alternative suit requires a lot of testing in an IT > > department. The suit must be stable and keep productivity high. > > Some of the IT departments I had to work with convinced me the average > tech person in the department knew less about computers in general than > I did. Not that I necessarily know that much. I can remember trying to > solve a networking problem according to my then employer's IT staff and > nothing worked. Eventually, they found that the hardware and software > they had specified did work well together. My sarcastic engineering > comment was to ask if they had bothered to read both spec sheets; I was > working in chemical process engineering then and reading spec sheets was > a mandatory practice for us to avoid killing innocent people. > > Another problem is that it is often easier in many companies to get > approval to buy/install from a "name brand" than from someone who is not > a "name brand". MS, Apple, Dell, HP, and Intel are "name brands" and it > is presumed safe to buy from them. A superior product may not get > installed/bought because of this mindset. In the 70's and 80's the joke > was "no one got fired for buying IBM" even if their product was the > worst in the market segment because of the brand image of IBM. This statement goes back further than that. i remember it in the 60's. There were far superior systems than IBM at that time, but the company bought IBM, mainly because of the above statement. > > If my above statements are wrong, then I am happy because I converted > > from MSO to LO, thus from an idiot to something else... > > > > On 2012-10-06 01:12, Wolfgang Keller wrote: > >> If MSO is a 90% market leader all its users cannot be complete idiots. -- openSUSE 12.2(Linux 3.4.6-2.10-desktop x86_64)| KDE 4.8.5 "release 521"|Intel core2duo 2.5 MHZ,|8GB DDR3|GeForce 8400GS(NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.43)
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