The sales cycle does not result in customers reading some news. Hence, "...pick up some new customers (especially on the corporate side)" just doesn't work. New customers aren't "just added." It takes a long time, to develope trust, among other things, to get a customer to just jump ship. New customers come from old vendors mistakes, not the headlines.
Clearly, the project managers assigned to this customer from RH did their job: they made the customer a partner...not a take over victim. So many companies say that the customer must do this or that, whether it is MS or some other software developer around the corner. RH came in and gave advice towards solving problems: a rarity in today's high dollar world.
Isn't this like my non-use of MS software refund?
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I have to accept paying for the pre-installed OS that I wiped clean, waste my time loading Linux the way I want, and then throw the still-shrink-wrapped software in the trash. I don't peel the stupid Microsoft Windows license sticker glued to my new machine and mail it back to either the manufacturer OR Microsoft. I deal with it.
This virus outage complaint is the EXACT same thing. I don't ask for a refund because my modem light is glowing, even though I have no systems on, nor when my Apache logs are filled to the brim, nor when it takes five to ten minutes to check my mail due to the latency.
It is part of life. Sorry. Get over it.
For the greater education need of the "masses," I would have preferred less ambitious talk in the article and more details about what they were moving away *from*. I know that MS was out there pushing very hard for their DataCenter implementation, but I know Sun was out there as well. The community has to get behind these wins big time, so others will consider it for their mid size needs as well, where Sun & Oracle make their killings.
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The sales cycle does not result in customers reading some news. Hence, "...pick up some new customers (especially on the corporate side)" just doesn't work. New customers aren't "just added." It takes a long time, to develope trust, among other things, to get a customer to just jump ship. New customers come from old vendors mistakes, not the headlines.
Clearly, the project managers assigned to this customer from RH did their job: they made the customer a partner...not a take over victim. So many companies say that the customer must do this or that, whether it is MS or some other software developer around the corner. RH came in and gave advice towards solving problems: a rarity in today's high dollar world.
I have to accept paying for the pre-installed OS that I wiped clean, waste my time loading Linux the way I want, and then throw the still-shrink-wrapped software in the trash. I don't peel the stupid Microsoft Windows license sticker glued to my new machine and mail it back to either the manufacturer OR Microsoft. I deal with it.
This virus outage complaint is the EXACT same thing. I don't ask for a refund because my modem light is glowing, even though I have no systems on, nor when my Apache logs are filled to the brim, nor when it takes five to ten minutes to check my mail due to the latency.
It is part of life. Sorry. Get over it.
For the greater education need of the "masses," I would have preferred less ambitious talk in the article and more details about what they were moving away *from*. I know that MS was out there pushing very hard for their DataCenter implementation, but I know Sun was out there as well. The community has to get behind these wins big time, so others will consider it for their mid size needs as well, where Sun & Oracle make their killings.