send this to your IT manager

[Tim King]

ReK2 <rek2 at linuxbusca.com> wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22770.html
> read and send it to your IT manager or corporate decision maker...
> don't let microsoft lie to them one more time... show them how they are 
> planning this.

I'm not sure I want to send this to my IT manager. I want to sell him on
Linux. This piece is probably more likely to sell him on Windows!

True, The Register's commentary has some nice things to say about Linux.
And they put a negative spin on MS's agressive marketing. But any IT
manager worth his salt will take anything The Register reports with a
grain of salt. And he won't care so much about agressive marketing as
about performance.

What the IT manager wants to know is: What's in it for him?

So when he gets to reading the MS memo itself, he'll discover nothing but
accolades for MS's solution so-called. MS is "selling the advantages of
our platform and the new volume licensing program." There's "value,"
"savings," Microsoft's ".NET vision," and "great products like Windows
2000 to start building on that vision today," as well as "business agility
and shorter time to market over Linux."

There's even a gut-wrenching story about a CIO who resigned "after several
months of schedule slips" due to Linux, this after he "vetoed" Microsoft,
despite the fact that they were "winning on all other merits." Microsoft
came in and saved the company, deploying W2K "within a month." It almost
makes you believe in Superman, doesn't it?

This isn't exactly what I want my IT manager to be reading. What we need
are a few confidential memo leaks from Red Hat et al.

Or, better yet, check out this article:

  The State of Corporate IT: A case for Linux
  A company is awed by Linux after getting screwed by MS once too often.
  http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.html?i=1527&p=1

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