On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 17:54 +0530, Ganesh Gajare wrote:
Hello all,
I don't understand in which direction you all ppl are talking.
Linux gives all you want. For vendors, as krishnakant says.. he required business, MS gives that to him and that's why they go for it.
And by the way, there are venders who are neutral to this and give what ever custommer demands. I knwo a few of them who won't favour any of them. But when I gave exclusive linux business to some venders and also showed them the way to earn a bit more marjin out of this, they give linux at least as a choice to custommers.
Ther are h/w vendor tell us that sorry, our high end servers will not support debian and GN/Linux, they are supported for RH, Suse. But we had tested that server run smoothly even with virtulization on Debian.
Hehe, as if debian is a different thing and RH and Suse another thing. This certainly means venders are themselves not aware of all this because they don't care to read any technology magazine, let alone bloggs or public forums, writing to which was recommended by some posters on this thread.
They only mean business. No wonder many venders have started to recommend Ubuntu (and not fedora ) to many customers.
Vendors, don't know what linux has, and there are only 2-3 h/w guy supports linux .
Point. Infact I am blogging about all this in a day or 2. I have talked with a few vendres who give linux as a choice to custommers and also talked with custommers who were had just seen a demo of Ubuntu and got their reactions on first time exposure.
We are supposed to give support for the rest of the thing. Guide people for buying dead machines and make them alive putting GNU/Linux, rather than talking with Vendors, bcos Manufacturers design is itself linux supported. Problem arise at very high level application which made for only high end server, one can get more details at that stage. Very true. and ironically, most so-called high end machines run free software. How many super computers really run windows? Required is putting GNU/Linux in each machine by you.
And at least making sure either as a voluntary contribution or otherwise to visit some venders and demonstrate them the free software based desktop and orienty them properly. One can do this if the person is a regular visiter to hardware shops for example.
Happy hacking. Krishnakant.