On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Gil Freund wrote:
> > Before one hails and advocates OSS one has to educated for better IT > > thinking: > > Find out what the business requirement are. > > Strip out MS-talk (mail and scheduling instead of exchange...). > > List the true functional requirement. > > Research both closed and open solution. > > Show case studies. > > Display the solutions. [... snipped ...] > Hi Gil, > > The points above, combined with the occational BSA ads and articles like > http://whatsup.co.il/article.php?sid=1972 (9 german cities consider > moving to Linux instead of paying MS for upgrading their systems next > year) drive me to a "campeign idea": "Microsoft/BSA scares you? Move to > Linux". Maybe combined with a "BSA" with a large "X" across it on > leaflets at Hi-Tech shows. Speaking of BSA and M$abuses, how about emphasizing the fact that MS are withdrawing WinNT support and forcing you to upgrade your legacy WinNT systems to WinXP if you want patches against threats like MSBlaster or SoBig.F? (Unfortunately, RedHat are shooting the figurative feet, by withdrawing support for old versions of the RH distribution; but at least 3rd party support is possible, in principle.) --- Omer My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
