OT: Apple's New xServe - 1U Rackmount Server

[John Nelson]

I've never understood why corporate America is reluctant to accept a 
product just because it's free and open to inspection.  Does charging 
money for a product make that product any more reliable?  And guess 
what, engineers of the same caliber develop software for Open Source 
projects as do Microsoft employees.  In fact I'd say many Open Source 
developers are of a far higher standard than those poor dumb bastards 
who work at Microsoft.

Business needs to get over this notion that just because you pay for 
something, it is necessarily of higher quality or carries better 
support.  Take Microsoft software for example.  When was the last time 
anyone successfully sued Microsoft because it's software was of poor 
quality?  When was the last time a retail consumer called Microsoft on 
the phone and obtained timely technical support?

If anything, Microsoft pay-for software is undermining the productivity 
and security of corporate America, but the suits refuse to adapt.  Too 
bad... they'll still be signing purchase orders to Microsoft as their 
corporate infrastructure crashes and burns.

-- John


Rob Brandt wrote:

> There are still companies out there that are cautious of the open 
> source license, and the presence of IBM in that market won't change 
> that for now, although it may make some reconsider sooner.  A friend 
> of mine went to work for one this month.  Everything is commercial, 
> they are curious about open source, but by no means ready to deploy. 
> Too many licensing, support, and reliability questions that have to be 
> answered.  I do some db consulting for a Fortune 500, and the IT guy 
> had to get permission to use an open source tool I had available. 
> Change comes slow in the corporate world...
>
> Rob
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>> On Tuesday 14 May 2002 04:17 pm, Rob Brandt wrote:
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>>>  In that market, Apple is in a narrow field; them
>>>  and Sun.
>>
>>
>> ANd IBM - don't forget, they support Linux now, the day of it's 
>> "maverick"
>> status is ending - the New York Stock Exchange runs on it.
>> -- 
>>  Robert Brandtjen
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