[TriLUG] visiting Red Hat HQ

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

Oh -- if you have fistfulls of money and visit NetApp ...they'll let you
in the doors ;).

Although -- I had a planned meeting in the executive briefing center. It
was freckin' sweet! 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Joseph Mack NA3T
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 7:56 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] visiting Red Hat HQ

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, WA Brown wrote:

> You would think that they would meet people with open arms. How do 
> they expect to grow if people dont like them or their products.

In the days when I was a biochemist, there was a small innovative
company in Maine, making a good product at a reasonable price that
everyone liked and used. Knowing I was going to be in ME, I called up
ahead of time to ask if there was such a thing as a tour of the place.

The person said that they were a small company and they were glad I like
their products, but all their friends wanted to do the same thing and
they couldn't take the time to show around everyone who visited. So
sorry no.

I guess things have changed since the early days. It isn't the Red Hat
of 10yrs ago - there's no hobbyist version of Red Hat anymore and all
the Red Hat founders have taken their money and run (AFAIK).

What reception would you get if you appeared at the front door of NetApp
or Sun and wanted a look around?

Joe
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