> On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 12:20 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> However the "ignorant masses" rarely read them. The ignorant masses >> are >> led by the nose by what they read in eWeek and ComputerWorld >> Magazine. > > perhaps. > > but step 1 for the ignorant (and the educated, for that matter) is > usually Google. given zawodny's contention that blog is merely an > acronym for better listings on Google, i wouldn't undersell their > importance. >
I think that I missed the point or at least the message. The blog is the greatest thing to happen to the open source world since .. well I can not think of anything that compares in terms of open communication. Perhaps the list server? Regardless, I was on the phone for well over an hour with two businee people yeasterday. One was a CEO and the other an IT Director and they had "no concept" at all what a blog was. They had no idea what a list server was. They had never seen Linux not Solaris. Sorry, not so, the IT Director had "seen" Linux but never seen Solaris despite having racks of Sun hardware and racks of IBM and Dell hardware. They were completely oblivious to a world that I took for granted. They were typical decision makers in medium sized business I fear. How do we reach them? Or do we work continually until we reach them via a slow creeping growth? I don't know. I really don't. I fear that classic marketing and tech magazines are still their source of information and yet we see blatant lack of vision in those. I had to listen to the classic "we need to rid our selves of this expensive proprietary stuff" rhetoric again. I had to show them the link to the T2000 and the Galaxy gear and one of them ( the CEO ) asked if he could run his Solaris apps on the Opteron gear. He had no idea about "recompile" or code portability from architecture to architecture. Its very very frustrating. Dennis _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
