Re: [ossig] Full page Microsoft FUD ad in the Star today

[Nur Hussein <nhussein@xxxxxxxxx>]

> How can there be lower TCO if every company has to invest in some form
> of training for their employees? (yeah.. although at the end of the day,
> there is still some savings, but to the average business, is it big
> enough for them to warrant the hassle of the switch??)

Cost of training eh? Didn't you know Microsoft's products don't need training?

Microsoft's angle is that because their click-n-drool interface looks
"easy", you can therefore use chimpanzees to administer them. Chimps
aren't expensive... give them some bananas and peanuts and they're
happy.

(but I hear the chimpanzees with MCSEs cost more). 

If you think that sounds overly cynical, I'd like to say that if an IT
professional wants to call himself a "professional", he needs to be
able to adapt to whatever technology is required of him. I learned
Linux on my own, from the web, and I'm just an "inferior student" who
"knows nothing about the real world".

When I was back in 2nd year, I did an Microsoft ASP project by reading
up on it in 24 hours. I was quite a stranger to Microsoft
technologies, being a Unixy guy, but I managed. I didn't an expert,
but I learned the ropes quickly enough to do a project in a day. I
didn't attend training courses or anything, I just *learned* from the
web and the library. If an "inferior student" like me can do it, then
there's no reason why "IT professionals" can't adapt.

-= Nur Hussein =-



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