On August 17, 2002 11:53 am, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: > >>>>> "C" == Chris Herrnberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > C> As stated their is lots of precedent here both in Canada and > C> the States. Almost status quo given the way MS works. > > And it reaches far and wide. Ours was not the only Linux-based > Industry Canada CAP proposal (Community Access Program) blown out of > the water by the combination of IC requiring parity grants from the > private sector coupled with the Microsoft Libraries grants program.
Hear ya loud and clear. We http://linuxstudio.com offered several outlets via a linux CAP project (now deceased) "free/no cost" lstp deployments combined with StarOffice 5.2 (OOo was not available at the time) plus 90 days support and no takers. Worked on this for about three months climbing the OCRI hierarchy. Still no takers and the only beta site was blown out of the water before it started. Seems that centers were more willing to use unlicensed software then make a switch to linux/OSS despite the presentations which addressed, ROI, TCO, support cost analysis, etc etc. The numbers were plainly irrelevant. Ohhh well. There are hopefully opportunities through CLUE once it emerges and matures into something viable. But that will take time and selfless commitment that is vendor independent/neutral. We will have to see what emerges. Chris Herrnberger http://linuxstudio.com Regional Marketing Representative; Canada Marketing Project http://marketing.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
