Re: UserLinux with MySQL - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: UserLinux with MySQL
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Msg-id 1072844582.5138.2.camel@joshuadrake.commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: UserLinux with MySQL  (Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar@myrealbox.com>)
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> If I run a business and find userlinux a good model of a linux distribution
> and Qt to be a good development framework, cost of few Qt licenses for my
> proprietory apps. would be rather negligible investment. Besides that buys me
> portability to windows with support as well. The cost goes even down then..
>

Just FYI GTK2 works great with Windows...



> Linux is all about choice. And Userlinux is taking away from it by making one
> on behalf on business. I don't think it will sell any big.

I think you would be surprised, to us Linux is about choice -- the the
"public" linux is about cheap. To the business world it is stability on
the cheap.

Also, I know few companies that are switching to Linux because it is
better. They switch to Linux because of TCO.

We may feel/know that it is better, but in the business world it is
the pennies that matter... If they don't have to buy a license, they
won't.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake




>
> And we all know how much defaults matter. Isn't this really all about?
>
>  Shridhar
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