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On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, John Horne wrote:
We already read in the computing press of companies, and local government offices running linux boxes in order to save money. I don't see this as a 'cheap alternative' but a realisation that there is a working alternative to Microsoft.
It's something that seems to be increasingly happening, talking to the salespeople here, there seems to be a number of companies who have called us up saying "We want out of the Microsoft stuff, can you help us?" That said the salespeople don't understand free sofware either. I spend a good 1/2 an hour once explaining to one of them how come samba was free (beer) and how "samba" is not a company. Alex. -- Come to the Open Source Software Day! Exeter Uni, Saturay the 27th of April 2002 http://dclug.org.uk/ossday/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.