[Am-info] Re: adopting alternative OSes

[John J. Urbaniak]

madodel@ptdprolog.net wrote:

> I think what you keep missing is that a company like Apple or Microsoft
> has pretty much one direction to follow.  Can you imagine a Marketing VP
> at Apple telling a 10,000+ seat client that they would be better off
> buying PCs instead of Apples, or someone at Microsoft suggesting that
> OpenOffice would be a better idea then m$Office?  But that is what
> happened/happens in IBM.

Behavior like this is what convinces me that someone high at IBM took a bribe to promote MS products over his own company's.  It's absolutely unbelievable in any other context.

John