Positive Fedora Vibes

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 10/7/06, Christopher A. Williams <chrisw01 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 16:26 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
>
> > And then there's this:
> >
> > http://smallbusiness.itworld.com/4383/nls_networking061005/pfindex.html
> >
> > ''...I estimate each Vista user will cost your company between $3,250
> > and $5,000. That's each and every Vista user. ...''
>
> As someone who is now helping clients plan for Office 2K7 and Vista
> Upgrades, as well as someone who makes *good* money selling and
> deploying SharePoint and other Microsoft Collaboration technologies, I
> think this number actually is a bit on the conservative side.
>
> I base this on my own knowledge and experience with these new versions.
> I'm in the Vista / Longhorn / Office 2K7 / SharePoint 2K7 / Project
> Server 2K7 beta programs through my job. These new versions are not only
> more expensive than their predecessors, they are also more complicated
> to install, configure and maintain to fully leverage the technology.
>
> That means most companies will also need larger quantities of
> profesional services to get these tools set up to be useful. That's good
> for my company <sheepish grin>, but we're also making no bones about
> telling our clients up front that the upgrades will indeed be expensive.
>
> ...What amazes me is that people seem so willing - even eager - to pay
> these premium prices when comparable (often times superior) technology
> is available to them at only a fraction of the cost, even when including
> the professional services needed to deploy and maintain everything!
> Microsoft makes extremely addictive Kool-Aid and you gotta hand it to
> them for the way the market (yup - some of it is definitely questionable
> or even illegal and they still manage get away with it). Knowing what I
> know, they would be near the bottom of my list for the majority of
> technology deployments. When asked directly by clients for an honest
> answer, I tell them the truth (without bashing anybody) and even then
> they still buy MS in the end. Truly mind boggling...
>
> I'm also a regional practice lead for virtualization technology (mainly
> VMware and Virtual Iron) for my company. I've been having a great time
> ribbing our MS liaison in the office about the fact that our lab runs
> all of the Office 2K7, Longhorn and Vista stuff on VMware Server hosted
> on Fedora Core 5 without so much as a hiccup. We're going to upgrade to
> VI3 next week, but will still keep 1 server as Fedora and VMware Server
> to run a few things.
>
> Looking forward to FC6 with lots of anticipation!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
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