networking newbie

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Tue Dec 1 11:17:08 1998

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?
Received on Tue Dec 01 1998 - 11:17:08 GMT