[ale] Re: [ale-unemployed] Mission Statement / Business Model

[Irv Mullins]

On Friday 08 February 2002 11:23 am, Charles Marcus wrote:

> The business model I've been thinking about is very simple - converting
> companies from Windows to OSS / Linux.
>
> I think the time is now for a company that specializes in this.  With the
> changes in M$ licensing, and the depressed economy, companies are much more
> willing to consider anything that will save them money, and all we have to
> do is find some way to leverage this.

Microsoft is helping us with this is several ways. Those include:

1. forced upgrades 
2. site license changes
3. more and more security vulnerabilities 
4. the ever-increasing expense of ensuring "license compliance" to keep the   
   BSA goons at bay.
5. the never-increasing stability of their OS

The web/news is full of stories on each of these topics. 

Microsoft has tried the FUD approach to fight Linux, but it seems that the 
things which should really inspire fear, uncertainty and doubt come 
shrink-wrapped with each Microsoft product.  

It might be good to start a thread about this, enumerating as many as 
possible, and later have someone who's a good writer use them to produce a 
mailing piece.

FWIW: some of my more computer-savvy clients have been asking about 
converting to Linux, without me mentioning the subject. Some people DO read 
the news.

Regards,
Irv





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