On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 01:40:09PM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Gil Freund wrote: > > > > Before one hails and advocates OSS one has to educated for better IT > > > thinking: > > > Find out what the business requirement are. > > > Strip out MS-talk (mail and scheduling instead of exchange...). > > > List the true functional requirement. > > > Research both closed and open solution. > > > Show case studies. > > > Display the solutions. > > [... snipped ...] > > > Hi Gil, > > > > The points above, combined with the occational BSA ads and articles like > > http://whatsup.co.il/article.php?sid=1972 (9 german cities consider > > moving to Linux instead of paying MS for upgrading their systems next > > year) drive me to a "campeign idea": "Microsoft/BSA scares you? Move to > > Linux". Maybe combined with a "BSA" with a large "X" across it on > > leaflets at Hi-Tech shows. > > Speaking of BSA and M$abuses, how about emphasizing the fact that MS are > withdrawing WinNT support and forcing you to upgrade your legacy WinNT > systems to WinXP if you want patches against threats like MSBlaster or > SoBig.F?
Not only for NT. Lately support has been withdrawn for win95 and win98. The support contracts from RH and SuSE for their "enterprise" products is for 5-6 years. More than the time since the launch of both win95 and winnt. > > (Unfortunately, RedHat are shooting the figurative feet, by withdrawing > support for old versions of the RH distribution; but at least 3rd party > support is possible, in principle.) -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
