Gidday,<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/26/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeff Waugh</b> <<a href="mailto:jdub@perkypants.org">jdub@perkypants.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<quote who="Brent Wallis"><br><br>> 1. Look a little more closely at the Austereo story ... the "issues" with<br>> "Linux" were actually issues with they overall design of what they wanted
<br>> to do...<br><br>This just points to lack of market awareness and available brains, really.</blockquote><div><br> </div><br></div>Correct!......<br>The guy is a goose that I wouldn;t let near my kids PC..... ....BUT MS gave (and will contiunue to give him) him a way out ...
<br>... a large majority of CIOs will eat this up...the person who wrote it, had these guys in their mind as their target audience.<br><br>many a board room will be splashed with copies of these articles.... an "I TOLD YOU SO" memo attached.....
<br><br>This story for a CIO gives them an opportunity to stand up and say:<br><br>"Why waste our time....look at this guys story.....damn the expense, Windows will do "it" for us..."<br>(...and the CIO gets to go golfing every Wednesday again instead of researching FOSS for due dilligence......
<br>.....and the way to counteract that is with stories of success!<br><br>Basically, the Austereo guy has locked his company into a long path tied with a single vendor.<br>They have nowhere to move ... nowhere to hide.....they must do what their vendor tells them...
<br>and the cost locks them in for at least 5 years.....bet if you asked this guy what the impact of Vista will be on his "deal" that he will have no idea of what he has gotten himself into...<br>lots of surprises due for those guys.
<br><br>We need to get across the point that that is a very, very bad business move.<br><br>Stories....real life stories is what we need.....<br><br><br>BW