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On 05-Mar-2002 at 12:35:52 Alex Charrett wrote:
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?"
Then you should have many happy days ahead of you working for your company :-) Enlighten these good people to the ways of Unix...albeit that Sun seem to be plugging linux a lot recently :-)
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.
Ah! Perhaps ask for a pay rise as 'in-house trainer' or some such? :-) John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: jhorne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key available from public key servers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.