1 Dec
1998
1 Dec
'98
3:17 a.m.
Julian Richardson wrote:
Not that I'm rather stressed out at the way the computing industry
blindly follows the big players round (sarcasm mode is on here, folks!)
- but I run up against this brick wall time after time. People high up
in a company see something as a risk unless they have to invest lots of
time and money in puchasing it and supporting it - they just don't seem
to feel safe if the product in question is low-cost (or free!) and runs
itself without any trouble, even if such "features" are rammed down
their throats. It's a very scary industry.
The Halloween Papers showed one of the strategies was to attack the process
rather than the implementation; sounds like that is what you are up against.
And on the same topic, didn't DECUS provide free (or low cost) software
applications? Did the same mentality apply to that, or did the letters "DEC"
tend to give more credibility to that software?