On 2011-11-19 07:46, David Morris wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, John R. Levine wrote: > >>>> * - "You don't want to get locked into open source", credited to an IBM >>>> salesman >>> Because once you try an open source mail reader, you'll never want to go >>> back to Lotus Notes? :-) >> That was way before IBM ever thought of buying the remains of Lotus. > > That makes it sound like an urban rumor to me ... I'm pretty sure that > general awareness of open source as a concept let alone competator an IBM > sales man needed to be concerned about post dates IBM's acquisition of > Lotus.
Definitely. It was my boss's boss in IBM, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, who turned IBM on to Linux and open source in general, and that was years after IBM bought Lotus and made all employees use Notes. I can believe it took a year or three for this to influence the salespeople whose bonus depended on selling proprietary software. Brian _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
