On Saturday 26 July 2003 23:06, Colin Watson wrote: (snippage for bandwidth)
> > I think they have the vision of a flatworm, but that's the way they > > are. So they may buy Red Hat, they would certainly buy IBM, but > > they're extremely unlikely to touch Debian unless somebody *sells* it > > to them for enough money. > > > > Now I expect someone will tell me their company does use Debian - > > well, lucky you, you work for a company whose managers' IQ exceeds > > their waist size (in inches). ;) > > Both my company and my previous company use Debian. :) Of course, this > is mostly because I work in software development and have always had > other Debianites, if not even other long-time Debian developers, around. > > At least in the near term, I think the future for Debian in business is > likely to be through companies like HP (which I pick semi-randomly > because Bdale gave an excellent talk on HP and Debian at DebConf) who > are willing to put effort into both developing Debian and selling it to > their customers. Having big names in our favour is the easiest way to > become accepted quickly in that world. Just as well for me I put that 'unless' escape clause in my post, isn't it? ;) But yes, what you said is, so far as I can see, the most likely way Debian might get accepted in the corporate world - through some commercial middleman, preferably one with an established 'name'. cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
