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Re: Wired Q: Embedded NT
From: Peter Galbavy <peter () wonderland org>
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 09:47:11 +0100 (BST)
Leigh Porter wrote:
I have to ask WHY!? Surly it would be far nicer to download the Linux source from somewhere since it already has pretty decent networking code and use that? What is the point of putting NT on anything but, well, but somebody's workstation or a server at a push? We already have tons of memory in our routers without having to add any more ;-)
The reason is simple. While we sit here bitching about this "minor" issue and that "minor" issue, like the state of the net, the S&M (Sales and Marketing, but sometimes I wonder) people are out there from Mickeysoft promoting the "No one ever got fired for buying M$" message. NT is a >corporate< product. This, in my view, means that you don't care if it works as long as you can hire someone else to fix it and your budget is maintained. Hell, if we started using "free" products, we wouldn't have license fees to pay and my budget to run a 100 node NT network would disappear. Budgets = Power in that sad world. A new vendor on the market will us "Our product runs embedded NT." as a plus in a sales pitch. Note the full stop. Their target audience believe them. A different vendor says "Our product runs on xBSD/Linux ..." and then has to spend the next hour justifying why theis selection is a valid one. Oh, yeah. I intend to do something about it. In my own little way. After all, someone has to combat M$ thinking they can buy the ISP marketplace. Regards, -- Peter Galbavy @ Home in Wonderland http://www.wonderland.org/ http://www.whirl-y-gig.org.uk/ http://www.demon.net Be remembered not for your final destination, but for your journey.
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- Wired Q: Embedded NT James Glave (May 14)
- Re: Wired Q: Embedded NT Michael Nelson (May 14)
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- Re: Wired Q: Embedded NT Lehrer, Neil (May 14)
- Re: Wired Q: Embedded NT Kevin Steves (May 16)
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- Re: Wired Q: Embedded NT Jay R. Ashworth (May 14)
- Re: Wired Q: Embedded NT Michael Dillon (May 14)
- Re[2]: Wired Q: Embedded NT dnewman (May 14)
- Re: Wired Q: Embedded NT Leigh Porter (May 23)
- Re: Wired Q: Embedded NT Peter Galbavy (May 25)
- Re: Wired Q: Embedded NT Alex P. Rudnev (May 25)
- Re: Wired Q: Embedded NT Edward S. Marshall (May 25)
- Re: Wired Q: Embedded NT Phil Howard (May 26)
- Re: Wired Q: Embedded NT Morgan Sarges (May 26)
- Re: Wired Q: Embedded NT Leigh Porter (May 23)
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- Re: Wired Q: Embedded NT Roeland M.J. Meyer (May 25)
- Re: Wired Q: Embedded NT dirk (May 25)
- Re: Wired Q: Embedded NT Dean Anderson (May 25)
- Re: Wired Q: Embedded NT Dean Anderson (May 25)
- Re: Wired Q: Embedded NT Patrick W. Gilmore (May 25)
- Re: Wired Q: Embedded NT Jonathan Bradshaw (May 26)