6 Oct
2011
6 Oct
'11
12:26 p.m.
"Business people" love Microsoft because they think Microsoft and
Bill Gates are the same entity, and like to be
associated with money and
financial success. These people typically haven't an iota of technical
know-how, and they're NOT the people who should be telling others what
tools to use to do their jobs.
That's nonsense. "Business people" love Microsoft because a) they think
that if they buy the same as everybody else, there will be no problems
exchanging mail, documents etc with other companies, b) they know that
they can easily find staff who knows how to use MS products, and c) they
assume that if they buy from a large corporation they can always get
some reasonable level of support, the products and support will be
around for the foreseeable future, and if something really bad happens,
they expect they can get help to fix it. They also prefer to get
everything from one place since it is easier to speak to one supplier
than several, and the products can be expected to interoperate, without
several different supplier pointing their fingers at each other when
something doesn't work.
However, in Europe quite a few government entities and private companies
have got fed up with MSs total dominance, and have begun mandating the
use of open source tools. The Swedish government's public procurement of
software includes both proprietary software and open source software.
/Jonas