Re: [seul-edu] School count

["S. Barret Dolph" <white129@ms7.hinet.net>]

Sales people will use the list whether you want them to
or not. A school here set up a server, Msql database, and
some other things. The cost to them was very low to nothing.
Even though they could not have afforded commercial software
a large software company estimated the cost of replacing the
free software with commercial software and counted this as
a loss to their business. It is not the sales managers who root
out such items.

It might be good to make sure that those schools listed have a
desire to be on the list.



Jennifer Dozar wrote:

> I made a list. it is on my page at
> http://www.grawk.net/~jennifer/OSschools/
> 
> More specifically,
> http://www.grawk.net/~jennifer/OSschools/SchoolCount.html
> 
> This list is for other schools, IT people, Open Souce Educators, etc. not
> for "Sales" people.  this is a refrence to knwo who is actually doing
> this, hopefully.   ANd not just some list that might be taken advantage of
> by sales people. 
> 
> if there is any information that is missing, or you feel you would like to
> add or correct, please let me know. email me. Thank you everyone! I hope
> more schools will be added to my list. And please feel free to link it or
> refrence it for your needs. 
> 
> Jennifer
> 
> On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, S. Barret Dolph wrote:
> 
> 
>> Is this really a good thing to do? One company, which I
>> leave unnamed, keeps track of these things. They then use
>> these lists to show to their sales managers that they are
>> losing money. That company has the position that Linux is
>> fine for studying in the university but should not go beyond
>> the university gates. It is, then, the job of the sales manager
>> to a) find work for the creator of the site b) find work for
>> the collaborators c) give free copies of software to the schools
>> so that they continue to use a different OS. d) advertise by
>> any means to the local people that Linux is not as desirable.
>> 
>> This is not speculation, flames, or whatever. It is not information
>> I received from Linux users. It is all from the directives of
>> recent meetings for sales managers worldwide.
>>