Rodent Regatta

from a ”whatever operating system you prefer” to a ”Linux appliance on your network” strategy. We sell business management software to the SMB (small & medium business) market. Typically, we focus on companies that distribute hard goods, have inventories and sell products that have an after-the-sale warranty and service obligation. Too often, we’ve made a sale and launched an implementation project only to discover some old, tired Windows 98 machines with too little memory and a NOS (network operating system) that is missing patches & updates or is simply too old. Red Hat, IBM, Sun and even Toshiba may be taking us into the era of the Linux appliance dropped neatly into a Windows network.

The Red Hat, IBM pitch for Linux in the enterprise. It’s the salespeople, stupid… [The Register]