[Luna] question

[Scott Sawyer]

Historically I think that whenever there was a change there would be a big
push right after it by Micrsoft to move to it.  They are already very active
in preparing for the fall and spring media blitzes.  I have to go check my
notes, but I do believe that by the end of the month you will be able to buy
enterprise versions of Vista on hardware.  Even more interesting is that I
strongly suspect MS is already running Vista and the 2007 series of products
in production in several large businesses.

Anyhow, when I worked for VA Linux we had all kinds of marketing stuff
against windows 2000.  I still have a bunch of t-shirts that say there's
nothing wrong with Windows 2000 that Linux can't fix.

If we were to do anything I'd think that we would want to get ahead of the
curve and then have events or messages going out periodically as follow
on's.  If the message is something along the lines of, you don't need to buy
new hardware if you look at Linux and open office in order to do work.  I
haven't looked at the memory requirements of Vista but I recall you need at
least 1 GB of RAM to make it work.  Linux can be pretty dang good in much
less.

Anyhow, if we want to start working on that, the time to begin planning will
be soon.

-Scott

On 11/9/06, Patrick Fleming, EA <pat at rwcinc.net> wrote:
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> Scott Sawyer wrote:
> > So...  What's everyone think of Vista?
> >
> > think it will be the killer OS to suck the life out of everything or?
> >
> > My take is that we will see in the spring a huge number of customers
> moving
> > to it...
> Especially if the OEMs are in on it. On the flip side we should at least
> be allowed to move a retail license to another machine due to their
> reworking of the license scheme. This may just be another ploy to keep
> the builders complacent but it will likely work.
>
> > What this creates is opportunity to get the Linux story out there
> > since if a customer has to change, they might as well look at other
> > options.
>
> Some might be willing to change. I would be interested in hearing what
> you and others have encountered professionally in the past during new
> releases of MS Windows and how that bodes for the upcoming release.
> >
> > This said, should LUNA do any activities around the launch to educate
> > people
> > about other choices and conduct demonstrations for small business owners
> > etc?  Excellent opportunity for any consulting folks out there looking
> to
> > target small business in the area.
>
> This would be a great time to do it. We need to start getting
> commitments from members to be there :)
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> >
> > -Scott
> >
> > On 11/9/06, Patrick Fleming, EA <pat at rwcinc.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> I didn't think it was inappropriate. I'm interested in things like this
> >> - and most of us still have to use the beast on a daily basis.
> >>
> >> ssawyer wrote:
> >> > Why, did you get lots of hate mail?  I think this is the general
> >> > indifference on the list.  Very interesting news, but most of us I
> >> think
> >> > are watching slashdot etc.
> >> >
> >> > -Scott
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Andrew Roazen wrote:
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> >> >> If I offended anyone by posting news and commentary on this list, I
> >> >> apologize. Was there something inappropriate in discussing the
> MS/SuSE
> >> >> situation? This seems like pretty big news and room for a lot of
> >> debate.
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