Erwin's StarOffice Tango

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Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing
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Dienstag August 16, 2005

OpenSolaris is "kool"
I just became aware of the following interesting LinuxWorld report:

"They were blown away. Then things would come back to cost... they knew that the Sun TCO was lower than RHEL, but they couldn't convince their powers-that-be... so I'd put a Solaris DVD in their hand and tell them that they were free to run it in production, no strings, no BS, call us when you'd like a support contract. At that point some of them almost started crying. It was great. I talked to one guy that had RHEL deployeed, couldn't tolerate the reliablity problems they were having, and were paying more than $22,000 for support... and that didn't include priority phone support, just access to the Red Hat Network. I talked to a gentleman at Siemen's who was desprate to stay with Sun and really left ready to fight. I had almost two dozen people like this."

The full report can be found here.
( Aug 16 2005, 08:37:30 AM CEST ) Permalink

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