On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: AS> Actually, I don't get the joke, but I'm dense like that sometimes. AS> However, I will relate an unrelated story. I was representing a AS> company that spent large amounts of money with the best known PC AS> supplier in this country. Every computer was immediately wiped of AS> windows upon delivery and Linux installed. In a meeting with the AS> manufacturer, I broached the unthinkable: I asked them to sell us AS> computers with no operating system installed on the hard drives. I AS> explained our situation to them and the answer was, sure, they could AS> do that, if we signed a letter of intent for $50k/quarter of AS> business (which we were already doing), and then they would do it AS> for an additional $50/machine. I said, well, no, I wanted AS> $150/machine LESS, because we were no longer buying the Windows AS> license, and Dell^H^H^H^H unnamed manufacturer would no longer have AS> to go to the expense of installing the software. They treated this AS> concept as a joke. I responded appropriately. After, the marketing AS> veep said, 'Dude, you really reamed him. Was that necessary?' I AS> said 'we still have choices.'
The question is why you were buying IBM PC compatibles in the first place when you could have bought Sun hardware. And if you really needed PC hardware why not assemble the machines yourself? No Microsoft tax. -- Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.edlund.org/ "You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens." -- Angelina Jolie
