[ale] OT: project management on a smaller scale - tangentialM$ Rant!!!

[Greg]

Well, when folks use your software forever and forever, your revenue stream
dries up since many people just keep using it. Folks still using Win98 on a
peer to peer network have not given any $$ to MS for how many yrs ?
Rent/Lease Ware is the wave of the future.  If anyone cannot see it and/or
research it then well ... "a fool and his money are soon parted" + "there's
a fool born every minute"   = so QED every minute M$ gets some bucks.

So ... tell us ... what was it like when the light bulbs went on in their
pointy little heads ?? No, really, you can tell us ....

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Keith
> Morris
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 12:17 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [ale] OT: project management on a smaller scale -
> tangentialM$ Rant!!!
>
>
> This has really nothing to do with the question asked but it brought to
> mind what I have been dealing with for the past couple of months.
>
> I am no longer a virgin. I have had my first initiation into the new M$
> licensing RACKET. We have been needing to implement an enterprise-wide
> project management system.  Those-who-must-be-obeyed had their hearts
> set on M$ Project with project server and Project Clients and Project
> Web CAL's.
>
> so we spent <obscene>MONEY</obscene> to get Project Pro Server and
> CAL's.  Well,lo-and-behold upon authorizing our Volume licensing plan,
> it says "Congratulations, you are now authorized to use your Microsoft
> Products through December 2004!!!" Wow.  Thanks.  I'll drop the disks in
> the overnight disk drop in redmond on new years eve.
>
> Not only that, but I now have to buy a new server, buy (rent) a license
> of Win2K server, and a license of SQL server...(anyway to get it to run
> with PostgreSQL?? LOL).
>
> Although, one good thing has come out of it after explaining the
> licensing thing to a few people, I actually saw the light come on behind
> some of their eyes...like they finally understood what that
> "Linux-crazed guy" had been going on and on all about....I guess a good
> concrete example never hurt anyone...
>
> Thanks for the rant space... ;)  g'nite.
>
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> Keith Morris <graphicsguy at attbi.com>
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