On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 02:23:28PM -0700, Roy Souther wrote: > Linux at war! Please read and send comments. > > http://www.SiliconTao.com/gallery_images/root_pages/27/linux_at_war.html
Well to being with, I disagree with the use of war rhetoric. As much as /. commants may lead one to believe that MS is an enemy to be destroyed, they're not. They merely need to be corrected. That MS is halding back its next version of NT is nothing new.. especially not to anyone who rememvers that w2k was called that so it would look early, instead of looking like NT5 being over a year late. Linux promotion itself is already well underway. Not so muc on the desktop yet, but hat will come soon enough. I still remember the IBM linux spot from last winter where a whole datacentre appeared to have been stolen, only to find out that it was replaced with a Linux box and was going to "save us a bundle". So promotion exists, but is not centralised. Realistically, it shouldn't be centralised. If a single organisation of Linux interests starts pushing Linux, we create an impression of "well of course they're pushing Linux, it's their special interest". Under the current promotional climate, we get a great deal of additional credibility from the independence of aoo our various advocates. Why throw that advantage away? As for the idea of "cleansed of FUD". it appears that MS's own marketing research indicates that FUD isn't doing them a whole hell of a lot of good (go figure, it didn't save IBM from years of losses and eventual restructuring either). The idea of a LUG for suits sounds interesting. If you can come up with some way to convince them to join such a beast, it would be very interesting indeed. Remember that the easiest way to suck is to focus more on your competition than your customer (adequate focus on you customer will give you all the information about the competition that you need). -- Kristofer Coward http://unripe.melon.org/ GPG Fingerprint: 2BF3 957D 310A FEEC 4733 830E 21A4 05C7 1FEB 12B3
