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Re: Building a Winning Team for the Event
On Sun, February 21 1999, Eli Marmor <marmor@elmar.co.il> wrote:
[ table deleted - I don't have much to contribute in these areas ]
|(In case 2.2.2 will not be announced till Tuesday, 2.2.1 will be
|used. In case 0.99.9 will not be announced till Tuesday, 0.99.8 will
Be carefull with this - test it well since there are reported problems
with it (most concenrinig is a screw-up with VM usage, but many bugs
are/were fixed with the 2.2.2-pre kernels as well as the -ac kernels).
|Some Blah-Blah:
|==============
|Finally, everybody knows that Linux is VERY stable, so the purpose
|of the demo is not to impress the people with an unbeatable
|stability; The purpose is to demonstrate the "Next Generation" of
I'd like to join the other chap who warned you about this - I know *I*
wouldn't be impressed if I saw Linux even APPEAR to be crashed (even
if it is just some control panel stop responding or some JDK bug
causing an application to be slugish) - remember that the newcomers
probably won't care about the reason.
|areas in which Linux was not strong, like desktop environments,
|ability to run some Win32 apps, friendlier apps (e.g. GIMP), etc.
|I hope to have something cool in Hebrew, but I can't promise.
Who's the audience? - if it is the ISV's/VAR's then they should care
more about stability/perfornace/networking/hardware/scalability than
nice Lose95-like GUI's.
|We will emphasize that some of the parts are still in beta, and that
|distributions will include similar features without sacrifying the
|stability. I know that such apologies ("it is only a beta, blah-blah
|of Plug-n-Pray scanner under the beta of Win98; But still the chance
|of a failure is small.
Not good. What do you expect them to think when you say "oops, sorry
about that crash, it's still in beta, some hacker in the Phillipines
is sitting on it as we speak". they'll think "why is he selling me
M$-style vaporware? Probably because he doesn't have anything stable
today, PASS!".
Instead you can gain their hearts by showing rock-solid software.
Even when you know (and some of the audience might know) that this
isn't the latest buzz in the Linux block, but still this "old stuff"
should impress them much better than what they get (or try to get :)
from Microsoft.
The risk is high. Simply not worth it. You can impress them still
with a much smaller risk.
Thanks,
--Amos
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