[wplug] COLLABORATION AS DISTRIBUTED CAPITALISM?

[Teodorski, Chris]

I've had similar problems here.  Upper management has said "We will not consider ANY free solutions".  It doesn't seem to matter how good the product or how well it fits the niche it fills.





-----Original Message-----
From: David Ostroske [mailto:eksortso at linuxmail.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 8:29 AM
To: WPLUG Mailing List
Subject: RE: [wplug] COLLABORATION AS DISTRIBUTED CAPITALISM?

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 10:47, Vanco, Donald wrote:
> 	What's really sad (from my perspective in my day-to-day job) is
> trying to convince those in my company of this.  They have a real hard time
> wrapping their heads around the concept that software developed in an open
> and "free" environment can be really, really great stuff.  As stupid as it
> sounds, I'd have an easier time passing some software solutions if they were
> _not_ zero cost.

Wow, sounds like some hard-headed cases you've got to deal with!

But maybe, what you said might be the best way to sell the stuff. Have
you had someone in your company balk at adopting OSS after telling them
that the software's free, even after you've sold them on how good it is?
Even if they knew that there was a (non-profit) foundation backing it
that they could trust/blame?

> 	I spend 50-60% of my time as a "marketing puke" (albeit technical
> marketing) - but I market open source ISVs....

Whoops, didn't mean to step on your toes, there. The "market droids" I
had in mind are the types that make pi-in-the-sky claims to their
clients, then ask you to write something to match their crazy ideas. May
I assume that the claims you make to the ISVs are fairly sound,
technically?

> Don

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