Re: Help to Promote Linux!

On Mon, 05 Jan 1998 19:58:28 -0600, in article <34B18FC3.3FECCB15@datad.com>, Mikey <linux@datad.com> wrote: :Howdy; : :Last week I posted something similar to comp.os.linux.advocacy but I :thought :it would also be appropriate here as well. : :We are trying to get a couple of companies to port their products to :Linux. :That's why we have created : :http://www.datad.com/linux_survey.html : :It is our hope that we can get a lot of responses so that we can go to :these :companies with demonstrative demographics. : :Obviously you use Linux. There's your first flawwed statement. (You posted this to comp.databases.informix) : However, no one in corporate America (Or the :rest of the world for that :matter), really knows who, where, and why Linux is being used. There's number two. NO ONE? That's total bull. :With :these demographics, :we can go to large multinational vendors and say see, here's who is :willing to look your product over. I know you're trying really hard to act like you know what you're talking about but that sentence really blew it for you. :Without it, we will just be a bastard child standing on the outside :looking in, watching Billy Boy :take over the world. There's flaw number 3. UNIX, LINUX and other OS's aren't going to die because of microsoft. The "death of UNIX" has been predicted over and over for more than 10 years now. :(Ok so maybe I'm being a little melodramtic.) There's number 4. A little? : :When my freind and I went to talk with some of the companies, their :marketing/sales droids, :wanted to know who was using linux and how many of them would want to :buy :their product. If you really _DID_ go to "companies" please explain what you mean by companies. Did you mean software companies or other businesses? If you mean software companies, why did you talk to sales people? : Holding my toungue I thought, none if you continue to :have that attitude. HUH? What a stupid statement. : :Yet, over the months, more and more people have expressed and interest :in Linux. The problem :is that the demographics are still needed. You really need to get a handle on your grammar and use of words. : :We feel that there is ample momentum, and that we will have a better :chance at success if we :can establish our market data as quickly as possible. Who is we? :(Read: We have a :window of opportunity :which is rapidly closing. If we don't act soon, we would lose our one :real chance of :success.) You have one chance at success? Huh? What are you talking about? : :We are not marketing types, so please forgive the haphazard appearence :of the survey. Well now it's becomming clear. It's about to become clear that this is spam and that you want email addresses to send more to... :So please check out the site and fill out the survey. Please also note, :we require a valid e-mail address so that we can validate the data. Sure so you can send shit I don't want? :(We hate spam as much as you, if not more.) Gee, why do you suppose you mentioned spam? :All the raw data will be held confidential, with only the cumulative :data being shown with :the vendors we are trying to contact. What an amazing crock of bull. You're going to go to a vendor and say "See all of the people who want us to ask you to port to Linux for them"? : :If you have already filled out the survey, THANK YOU! Translation: We'll be UCE'ing you shortly. :If you haven't, you should. And Please tell a freind. Translation: If you haven't please do and tell another sucker. We need all the email addresses we can get. :They say that there is supposed to be 5 million Linux users out there. Ya know, I don't usually grammar check posts, but if you talk the way you write, don't bother talking to the execs at most vendors. They'll tell you to go back to grade school. :I only need to hear from a couple of thousand of them over the next few :weeks. What happened to "we". Why a couple of thousand? Why a few weeks? :(Primarily those using Linux in a corporate or business environment.) Huh? You've changed your mind from the beginning of your post. Let me refresh your memory. You said: : However, no one in corporate America (Or the :rest of the world for that :matter), really knows who, where, and why Linux is being used. If no one in corporate america or the rest of the world for that matter really knows who, where, and why Linux is being used, how could anyone be using it in a corporate of business environment. BTW, what's the difference between a corporate or business environment? Look. This is SPAM. You posted off topic to comp.databases.informix. (I know, I just wasted bytes responding) but your post is so moronic I couldn't help but say something about it. At least if you're going to pull this shit, get a writer. 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