why linux might be a tough sell in some markets ...

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  and just in time for those of you who need a little chuckle
this morning, i present an excerpt from a 2002 article, showing
why trying to sell linux as cheaper/more reliable/more secure,
etc. to IT might not work if you're dealing with truly luddite
computerphobes.

  i have removed all identifying info from this snippet, to
let you imagine what effect this individual had on his new
organization -- i'll post full, identifying info later.

  "Former XXX Director XXXXXXX XXXXXX was himself notoriously
technology-averse -- he had the computer removed from his office when he
took over XXXXXX, and he never began using email. When he left in June
2001, the standard issue XXXXXX computers were 386 or 486 PCs -- machines
that were obsolete by the mid-1990s."


rday