They are passing along the cost on Feb 17th with increases to the basic store fee and increases in insertion fees. It's increasing my ebay payments per item from 6%-8% to 12%-15%. There goes the profits for the little guy. I'm out feb 16th.
By far most users of ms (90% of the market) are not programing geeks and want simple to use systems and that is where ms shines. When open source can be used out of the box by the average user, then it can compete with ms. And no it's not there yet, even with Suse, Redhat, Mandrake, etc.
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How can this not be about cost savings when you have the ability to eliminate lots of IT personel?
They are passing along the cost on Feb 17th with increases to the basic store fee and increases in insertion fees. It's increasing my ebay payments per item from 6%-8% to 12%-15%. There goes the profits for the little guy. I'm out feb 16th.
The example you state will happen to you at a brick bank with the same set of circumstances. This I know from experience.
Great reasoning for the .002% of the using pubic that understands what you just said.
By far most users of ms (90% of the market) are not programing geeks and want simple to use systems and that is where ms shines. When open source can be used out of the box by the average user, then it can compete with ms. And no it's not there yet, even with Suse, Redhat, Mandrake, etc.