[SWLUG] Celtic manor and MS roadshow Debate??

[Peter Bradley]

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 14:18, Peter Joseph wrote:
> Frank smith wrote:
> 
> > HI All
> >       Well now I've cleaned all the marketing blarb from my ears re 
> > the ' open source debate',
> > It was nice meeting a few of you there.
> > Was it only me that thought the question time seemed to be cut down 
> > sharply when the guys on stage
> > started looking a bit worried?
> >
> Hehe, I expected as much! I'm really cheesed off that I missed it, i've 
> come down with some sort of stomach bug!!
> 
> > This wasnt a debate it was a MS sales show, and it may come as a shock 
> > the open source comunity
> > that we no alternative software for:
> >
> > 1 profiles/groups   (evidently acording to MS this is their new thing)
> >
> > 2 Set group permissions in a domain ( mmm )
> >
> > 3 update files while some else may add to the same file ( Thats not 
> > Unix then!)
> 
> HAHAH! Nothing else to say about that. Apart from, how many years did it 
> take them to bring NTFS, to desktop users, while Linux users have had 
> permissions etc since the dawn of time.
> 
> >
> >
> > It seems Linux/OS are only effecting old Unix lagasey systems and wont 
> > really effect windows for a few years anyway ( So why the roadshow?)
> >
> Hmm....i'm sure I read somewhere that windows still has code from 1982 
> in it. Legacy systems my ass.
> 
> > I was sat in front of a guy from Dixons who imformed them that he was 
> > rolling out OPen office on there shop PC's for ' ease of use and cost'
> > Now that upset the MS guys!!
> 
> Damn, I would have paid to see that!
> 
> Pete

Yeah.  I missed it as well.  Managed to take the wrong turning at Caldra
and finished up in Usk!

Sounds as though I missed a really interesting morning.

How does MS think that businesses are actually going to be influenced by
these sessions?  Don't they know that anyone considering using F/OSS is
going to do their own cost/benefit analysis?

Where I work is really MS-centric, but even they are talking about,
"Getting off the MS treadmill" as they put it - and they won't be using
MS funded studies to make their decisions for them.  They'll do their
own.

Peter