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Re: [ossig] how true is this?
the way i read the article - it was more of a migration problem -
jumping into something without looking ?? decisions made based on what
was heard about ??
i know of some linux environments who have had problems with printers
and updates - it is not going to go away too soon.
the other problem is expecting that a box will do everything. in
whatever environment - this is a big problem. usually in my sales pitch
i usually try to scale expectations into realiasable 'packages'
with respect to diy - he..he.. i and a number of my clients do it all
the time... one of them even goes as far as doing 70% of the office
renovation (except air-con and main electricals).
cdemarco@fastmail.fm wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 09:55:44PM -0800, Poh Yang Ming wrote:
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>>how true is this?
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>Perhaps it's 100% true, perhaps 100% lies. Certainly this is a
>Microsoft advertisement which it paid some marketing person to write,
>and is from the point-of-view of a dissatisfied Linux user who is not
>likely to give glowing accolades to Linux. So while Thong paints a
>sad picture of his experience, we must ignore the
>Linux-bad-Windows-good message (what else do you expect from a MS
>marketing piece?) and focus on the few objective facts we're given:
>
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> "The company engaged a freelance Linux service provider to set up
> the system."
>
>Since we don't know who this "freelance ... provider" is, we can only
>speculate as to his competency and/or honesty. But as a rule of
>thumb, a business will not generally hire a freelance lawyer or a
>freelance plumber, the job will go to somebody with an established
>business, somebody who's staked his income on his ability to provide
>quality work. I can imagine many other scenarios where somebody has
>hired a freelance consultant and gotten bitten by the quality of work.
>
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> "At a rate of RM250 per visit, that works out to RM6,000 a year. And
> that figure would have been higher if we had engaged established
> Linux services companies rather than freelancers," he adds.
>
>Switching control variables in our experiment, are we? You can fault
>your "freelancers" for bad work, or your "service companies" for high
>prices, but you can't mix-n-match. While it's technically true that
>"250/visit = 6000/year; therefore increasing $/visit would increase
>$/year", it's possible that visits/year will *decrease*. Hire a
>better consultant next time; don't blame Sony if your teenage son
>can't fix the Playstation.
>
>
> "Like most SMEs, Peng Hong Hardware is not big enough to hire an IT
> specialist. "...it is important to have a user-friendly IT platform
> which does not require extensive technical support," says Thong."
>
>1. So Thong is himself a "freelance" IT specialist. Let's ask our
>small-business owner friends (Tze Meng? Raja Iskandar?) whether
>they'd try to, say, re-wire their office for extra power outlets. If
>you DIY some critical aspect of your business, about which you have no
>special or professional training, you're asking for trouble. Like it
>or not, if you want quality work (and if you're riding your business
>on something, you should care enough to get quality), you have to pay
>for it.
>
>2. RH9 is *not* a "user-friendly IT platform", it is a
>general-purpose OS. MS WSMB is *not* a general-purpose OS, it is an
>appliance designed to provide very specific functionality to a very
>specific market. Comparing apples and durian.
>
>
> "significant Linux deployment or total switch from Windows to Linux
> would be three to four times more expensive and take three times as
> long to deploy as an upgrade from one version of Windows to newer
> Windows releases."
>
>Now we see who this advertisement is targetting - the lazy and the
>stupid. Why do I bother dissecting the ad any further? Of *COURSE*
>migration costs to Linux are higher, that's why it's called a
>"migration" and not an "upgrade". <SIGH>
>
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> "[Linux vendors] have begun charging hefty premiums for must-have
> items such as technical service and support, product warranties and
> licensing indemnification."
>
>This is just getting silly. When was the last time MS (or Sun, or
>IBM, or fscking Proton Edar) gave you free tech support?
>
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> "Thong was also unaware that Red Hat 9 was an "end of life" product
> which was no longer supported in terms of security alerts, patches,
> bug-fixes or enhancements. "The reseller did not tell us that we
> were running a Linux OS which is not supported anymore.""
>
>Then sue the incompetent fool, or next time don't run your business on
>shit you buy from some guy standing on a street corner holding a
>cardboard sign reading "Kompyoouter Speshalist".
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