Re: A Linux Today story has been mailed to you!

[Raju Mathur <raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Y'know, I don't think it's as much a question of people not wanting to
pay for Linux service as it is of not wanting to pay for any service.
Many organisations do not equate wasted time with wasted money (as is
their prerogative) and hence are perfectly content with letting
projects run way over time as long as they don't have to pay external
consultants.  I personally have given proposals to organisation which
would have saved them lakhs in the long term (long term being defined
as one year in this case), but the only figure which got into their
minds was my fee for integration, so the whole project ended there and
then.

Regards,

-- Raju

>>>>> "Mithun" == Mithun Bhattacharya <mithun.b@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Mithun> Personally I am aware of one company (very well funded)
    Mithun> who has spent over one month in changing the IP address of
    Mithun> one machine from 10.40.2.x series to a real IP
    Mithun> address. Yet wouldnt pay a couple of grands to me to do
    Mithun> that - interestingly enuff three people have already made
    Mithun> unsuccessful attempts on that server.

    Mithun> Ofcourse there was this other company who was still trying
    Mithun> to figure out how to use tar and rpm and how to execute
    Mithun> daemons on Linux.

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Raju Mathur          raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxx           http://kandalaya.org/