The RIAA is like the mafia, however not in the since you would find in a movie like the Godfather, or something.
they attempt extortion, and in my opinion the RIAA didn't get slammed hard enough
If you want upper management to understand the beniffets of Linux, point out the numerous security flaws associated with it, and if they truly have the mentality that you have to pay for something for it to be good just point out that you can PAY for support for red hat enterprise and receive support for it also mention that the current Linux system works fine with no serious issues and it would be a waste of resources to perform an unnecessary upgrade which would require replacing the entire server infrastructure (use real big words:D) when the current one works fine.
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The RIAA is like the mafia, however not in the since you would find in a movie like the Godfather, or something. they attempt extortion, and in my opinion the RIAA didn't get slammed hard enough
If you want upper management to understand the beniffets of Linux, point out the numerous security flaws associated with it, and if they truly have the mentality that you have to pay for something for it to be good just point out that you can PAY for support for red hat enterprise and receive support for it also mention that the current Linux system works fine with no serious issues and it would be a waste of resources to perform an unnecessary upgrade which would require replacing the entire server infrastructure (use real big words :D) when the current one works fine.