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Re: [LUG] Simian evolution on redhat 7.0?




On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, John Horne wrote:

We already read in the
computing press of companies, and local government offices running linux
boxes in order to save money. I don't see this as a 'cheap alternative' but
a realisation that there is a working alternative to Microsoft.

It's something that seems to be increasingly happening, talking to the 
salespeople here, there seems to be a number of companies who have called 
us up saying "We want out of the Microsoft stuff, can you help us?"

That said the salespeople don't understand free sofware either.  I spend a 
good 1/2 an hour once explaining to one of them how come samba was free 
(beer) and how "samba" is not a company. 

Alex.

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Come to the Open Source Software Day!
Exeter Uni, Saturay the 27th of April 2002
http://dclug.org.uk/ossday/


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