[ossig] TM Net User Group Klang Valley

[Dr Molly Cheah]

Ow Mun Heng wrote:

>Remove Jeff from CC:
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I agree.

>On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 19:05 +1000, Colin Charles wrote:
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>>4 * 3000GB disks, rackspace,
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>Where in the world do i get 4 * 3000 GB Drives?
>The largest I know of is Seagate's 4 Disk(platters), 8 heads, 750GB
>Drive which has an areal density of 167GB/platter
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>>	* Whatever else, by popular request
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>You know what, while it _does_ benefit the OSS users, it does nothing to
>help the what?? 80-90% of windows users?
>So... sucks to be them?? I beg to differ, in business, it's always
>"majority" wins.
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Look at it from another perspective. Almost all OSS users go to some 
mirror site or other overseas, including those (minority) who use p2p 
sites. That apparently take up most of their bandwidth and this affect 
their services majority of people who use to check e-mails and surf the 
internet occasionally. (That was what we were told) If they could "save" 
their bandwidth and improve their services to the "majority" that's part 
of their business strategy. In that sense, the majority still wins - 
thus win-win. Of course their management needs to be convinced of this this.

>They don't know *nix because they don't feel there's a "Need" to know of
>it "yet".
>This mentality will need to be changed, and it won't happen overnight.
>Heck.. 2 years ago, *nix is not as stable as it is right now? Now, when
>did kernel 2.6 come about?
>What about the BSDss??
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>Sigh.. Anyway.. 
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Sure. That's what I said. They accept that they have to make sure that 
their services and products can be used by non-IE browzers. I was told 
that their on-line billing payment now support firefox, mozilla etc. in 
response to my informing them that I don't use that service because I 
don't use IE. In fact when I encountered connection problem lately and 
called their call centre, the guy even suggested that there was 
something wrong with my browzer and promptly suggested that I switch to 
using firefox or mozilla, without knowing what I was using then. I was 
amused by that. The biggest challenge will be educating their technical 
guys on the use of OSS. Even getting the SIG on OSS was so hard. But my 
strategy was to mention that there is a Govt Policy for public sector to 
use OSS with a well drawn out roadmap etc and then tell them to go to 
MAMPU's web-site on OSS. Then no-one argues further (and that includes Jeff)

Molly