> No CIO in the > world said, "I've gotta get me some Linux!", or at > least in the late > 1990s when Linux was taking off. He woke up one day > and realized Linux > was already everywhere.
Actually the reality is that he was told some day that Linux has already been put in place by some bloke on cheapo DELL hardware, after the fact. Number two thing that happened, InfoWeek and all those management garbage magazines got on the bandwagon - Linux was just the sensationalist thing to write about and keep the subscriptions going. The fact that most managers are economists and not technical people didn't help either. Chanting something long enough to onself or reading the same thing over and over - and perception becomes reality. Meanwhile neither DELL nor Linux are cheap any more - and Fedora, even though it has an initial price tag of gratis - is extremely expensive in the long run. Does the economist know that? No. Does the hacker who put it in know? No. Do the hacker or the economist know any better? Again, the answer is a resounding no, or they wouldn't have done it / approved it. Take a wild guess what will happen when the hacker finally gets bored or when the economist pisses him off enough so that he leaves? BTW, ever heard of CMM, the Capability Maturity Model? > Do you fight the trend or > figure out > how to take advantage of it? The answer seems > perfectly logical to me. Not at the expense of quality! You want to take advantage of the trend? Then use the "perception is reality" method. Fight fire with fire. Educate the user base. Reality is, Solaris is easy. Much easier than Linux. Perception tells us the opposite. We need to change the perception, then the reality will change also. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
