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Re: Installation party and PF1



On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 09:16:32PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> 1. PF1 sells Linux in Israel at a quite stiff price (~300 NIS), but I
> don't see any promotion of Linux in the media. As a person who works
> with business customers at ISDN Net who needs to recommend to clients a
> web/mail/ftp solution I am *forced* to recommend NT, but I know for sure
> that PF1 and specially the Linux OS can do the same job with much more
> reliable operation on a modest hardware and minimum maintenance, not
> mentioning stablity. So PF1 - hello? are you alive? how about more 1
> page full colour advertisement?? how about a good mirror ftp in Israel?
I guess they don't wish to enter the Linux_system_management_and_support
market, mainly since it is a quite demanding niche, and starting a competition
with existing Israeli companies, who have years of experience in this area
(TclTek to name one (did I spell it right;-)) is not their idea of the best
way to expand their activity in the Israeli IT market.
> 
> 2. I really don't see how PF1 can help besides sponsoring? what are
Sponsoring could prove to be invaluable!!!
> 
> I trully hope that Linux of PF1 won't get the same treatment as Netscape
> with the Hebrew issue (when was the last time you've seen Hebrew on
> Netscape menu's?)
Last week actually (I got lost at elmar.co.il ;-)

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