I think you are completely correct. Having moved from a support role to a more "suit" role, I think that the best thing "suits" can provide to linux groups are toys and a good work enviroment. Linux people love toys and it is the job of the suits to give them these. A good, fun work enviroment, lots of room to let employees work whenever they want to from 9am-5pm or 6pm-2am, as long as they get their job done. Give them boxes on the net to host their own sites and have people with shell accounts. The people who should be treated the best are the engineers and developers, without them the sales guys have nothing to sell, or something that isn't good. So what if the sales guys make more money, sometimes, than the engineers. The engineers are getting payed pretty well also, and they dont have to directly deal with customers and kiss ass so much. I have become friends with many linux type people, yes the suit world also refers to linux people the same way linux people refer to suits. Some of these guys have turned into really good friends and really great when I have a question. Both worlds can co-exist and both worlds can profit from it.
I just wish my company had COMPLETE linux support. Well its something to push for.
As long as they dont start putting a ton of ads etc etc on their pages, a few doesnt matter but a couple of big time ads would be best, they will be pretty big. I hate using altavista, yahoo and the other search engines because they dont give me the information I need. Also when searching for good linux docs google seems to pull up the most relevant pages. I really like google and I hope they work on getting their search engine even better and then worry about the advertisers. They better not sell out they better stay small and they will be the the top.
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I think you are completely correct. Having moved from a support role to a more "suit" role, I think that the best thing "suits" can provide to linux groups are toys and a good work enviroment. Linux people love toys and it is the job of the suits to give them these. A good, fun work enviroment, lots of room to let employees work whenever they want to from 9am-5pm or 6pm-2am, as long as they get their job done. Give them boxes on the net to host their own sites and have people with shell accounts. The people who should be treated the best are the engineers and developers, without them the sales guys have nothing to sell, or something that isn't good. So what if the sales guys make more money, sometimes, than the engineers. The engineers are getting payed pretty well also, and they dont have to directly deal with customers and kiss ass so much. I have become friends with many linux type people, yes the suit world also refers to linux people the same way linux people refer to suits. Some of these guys have turned into really good friends and really great when I have a question. Both worlds can co-exist and both worlds can profit from it.
I just wish my company had COMPLETE linux support. Well its something to push for.
As long as they dont start putting a ton of ads etc etc on their pages, a few doesnt matter but a couple of big time ads would be best, they will be pretty big. I hate using altavista, yahoo and the other search engines because they dont give me the information I need. Also when searching for good linux docs google seems to pull up the most relevant pages. I really like google and I hope they work on getting their search engine even better and then worry about the advertisers. They better not sell out they better stay small and they will be the the top.