There are many Israeli organizations which already "saw the light" and their managers became enthusiastic proponets of OS/Linux, such as Davidovich Bakery, Israel Aircraft Industries, Hachsharat-HaYishuv (Maariv), etc.
Chaza"l said "Yoter MiSheHaEgel Rotze Linok - HaParah Rotza Lahanik" - and people who are involved in organizing conferences can testify that CIOs and other senior USERS of Linux and/or OS ask the organizers to let them talk about their own success story. I think that considering the dangers that were mentioned, this is a brave action, and an award might be a good idea. It still requires a comparison with other alternatives for this money (after all, the resources are limited, and there are too many "good ideas" what to do with them, so being a "good idea" is not enough, but rather - the *best* idea). Gבbor Szabף wrote: > > I found this pair of articles with the above title very interesting. > It basically goes over several issues explaining why clients don't > talk about OS in their organizations. Something I have experienced > first hand. > Back 3 years ago we wrote an article about a local bank that started to > use Perl in one of their critical applications. While we got approval from > the lower levels of the organizations we suddenly received a call from > one of the managers to stop the article from being publicized. > They did not want to see their name in connection with some Perl > application even though they got it from IBM, their hardware vendor. > > http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,39020463,39238437,00.htm > http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,39020463,39238434,00.htm > > While these articles explain some of the reasons, it does not say much > on how can we encourage more organizations to talk about their use > of Open Source technologies. > > I think one of the reasons people would start to talk about it if it turned > out to be cool or sexy or modern to use Open Source and by publicizing > use of Open Source one would get higher evaluation from his/her peers. > > Forming a HaMakor award for the managers who make the move? > Opening a HaMakor club for manegers who encourage (or allow?) use of > OS in their organization? > > Gabor -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CEO, Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-5237338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
