[TriLUG] Can open source solutions be viable companies?

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 14:55, Vestal, Roy L. wrote:
> Tanner, I've made this arguement to them. They are starting to understand
> that.  Some folks have been entrenched so long in "closed source means safe"
> mindset so long, they honestly believe that folks in the *nix community (not
> just Linux) are "hackers" that want to destroy stuff. It's unreal.
> Thankfully I have folks like the PhD that I spoke about earlier that believe
> the same we do. He just needs "ammo for his gun".  He has been into Linux
> and used it to build one of the largest endocrinology db's in the world.
> Believe me, he understands. He's glad there's someone here that agrees with
> him.

Just mention IBM to them. :-)  Anyone else remember when the statement
"No one ever got fired for choosing IBM" was in regular usage?

> My bosses trusts me and my knowledge. They know that I won't present them
> with something that's crap. I've already shown them that.

That's a very good thing.
 
> I'm just happy that they want alternatives to the status quo. And they have
> announced that they are looking into Linux as a possible desktop
> alternative, not as a replacement, but as an alternative to what we
> currently use.

Cool!  Good luck with that.  Realistically, Linux can do what
most people use computers for these days anyway, especially 
when you consider Crossover office.

Tanner
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