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Unisys: We No Longer Have A Way Out
rbochan writes "Some of you may recall a couple of years back when Microsoft and Unisys decided that a multi-million dollar ad campaign against *nix was in order, dubbed 'We Have A Way Out.' The results weren't what they'd hoped. ZDNet is now reporting that Unisys has done an about face and is now touting Linux as 'a mature technology and the right cost-effective option for many companies.'"
Smear campaigns only work a) if you are M$ and that is all you are capable of (can you blame them? They can't seem to make any good software, so smearing the other guy is the only acceptable solution) or b) you are against SCO, in which case nothing is actually accomplished. Well, the only thing that is accomplished is lawyers have more job-security. Smear campaigns don't work when in business. It's not like an election, when the choice is made only every term. People choose to buy or not all the time. So if you say something like Satan uses Linux, and then a few years later you state that Linux is (of course) a very good OS, then people will take it and your own words will bite you in the ass. Businesses should spend more time training the troops rather than shouting from the bleachers. If they just made reliable goods or rendered useful service and used decent marketing to inform about each, we'd have a better market economy. But as long as monopolies like M$ are able to coerce, it is a lost cause...
closed and proprietary world of Windows.
I didn't realize Solaris was open & non-proprietary.