Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 14, 2003 09:24 PM
This Linux User Group would have as members ONLY business groups and corporations! They would have a membership fee that would create a sum of money where they could directly control a browser (or an office suite, etc...) that they want to use world-wide.
The money that they are paying already to Microsoft only aid the balance sheet of Microsoft. If they paid an equal amount of money to this LUG then they would be in better hands as they would be memebers of this democratic LUG and have an influence on it's directions.
In time - after their applications (IE, Office Suite, Accounting packages, etc) are standarized and require very little time to maintain development... they, can keep their money (vs if they stay with Microsoft they will have to keep paying more and more money... for as long as Microsoft exists... and they will have to compete with others that joined the LUG that now have lower TCO).
By creating this "well endowed" corporate LUG style user group they could save money, create standards for applications that business could use on a Linux OS, and free themselves from the chains that Microsoft keeps them in. They could even buy existing companies like SuSE, RedHat, Ximian, Intuit, Apple, or any other cheap deals out there that would enhance their portfolio of technologies. In the end all this technology would be GPL/GNU and would trickle down to the end users that these folks need to communicate and do business with!
It might all even be based on Security Enhanced Linux (creating a standard that everyone can be somewhat secure to work with)!
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Solution is - corporate LUG with lower TCO goal.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 14, 2003 09:24 PMThe money that they are paying already to Microsoft only aid the balance sheet of Microsoft. If they paid an equal amount of money to this LUG then they would be in better hands as they would be memebers of this democratic LUG and have an influence on it's directions.
In time - after their applications (IE, Office Suite, Accounting packages, etc) are standarized and require very little time to maintain development... they, can keep their money (vs if they stay with Microsoft they will have to keep paying more and more money... for as long as Microsoft exists... and they will have to compete with others that joined the LUG that now have lower TCO).
By creating this "well endowed" corporate LUG style user group they could save money, create standards for applications that business could use on a Linux OS, and free themselves from the chains that Microsoft keeps them in. They could even buy existing companies like SuSE, RedHat, Ximian, Intuit, Apple, or any other cheap deals out there that would enhance their portfolio of technologies. In the end all this technology would be GPL/GNU and would trickle down to the end users that these folks need to communicate and do business with!
It might all even be based on Security Enhanced Linux (creating a standard that everyone can be somewhat secure to work with)!
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