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  1. Yes the UNIX marketed by RH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on On The Death Of Unix

    Yes! in one of the coroporate bigwig's conference, an ex-head of Red Hat India had introduced himself as a representative from Red Hat who sell Unix!

    Few years back Mr. Javed Tapia Head of Red Hat in India after RH 8 was released announced that Linux's time has come! and now he too has started using it!!

    Other time when he was interviewed by Businessworld he likened the success story of Linux to what he called 'roaches-under-the-board theory'!

    He said, "Cockroaches multiply because typically they're under a board and no one cares what happens below the board. One day when you lift the board and look, there are a few million of them waiting to get out. By the time you get around to swatting them, most escape. That's pretty much what happened with Linux, chuckles Tapia. "Microsoft ignored us for too long. Thank God for that."

    A friend of mine who runs a training center told me that when contacted Red hat India for details to be Red Hat Training Partner, they mailed back a MS Word Document typed in MS Word!

    I didn't believe it first and I contacted a friend who had recently joined RH India when I asked him if they used Windows in RH India ? He confirmed it! it seems they use windows in Mumbai(Bombay) Nariman Point Office!

    A piece of advice to Red Hat people reading this comment:

    Friends! whatever nice stuff does your developers and artists do, in no matter of time your marketing team (atleast in India) will ruin all your efforts!

    Please employ someone who enjoys linux(like Biju Chacko, developer of XFCE whom you've recently employed) not someone because he just done his MBA in Harvard or some other BIG university!

    You people are doing a bit of sales in India because of the community! definitely not because of most of your marketing fools!

  2. Bill's tux by MicklePickle · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Targeting Indian Developers

    I notice that in the posted image Bill is wearing a tux. Looks like it's affecting him more than he thinks.