[Sigia-l] Forcing practice

[Todd R.Warfel]

And to that point MS recently lost a multi-million dollar bid, I think 
it was around $32M, to an OpenSource company in Germany because the 
city didn't want to have to worry about licensing, support, and 
professional services after the sale. Even MS is being effected and 
changing their business model to try and combat this type of thing.

Of course, the question follows - what about the down time during the 
transition to phase out the MS desktop and in the OS desktop? That's 
suppose to be figured into the bid, but we'll see how that works out...

There are several very large software vendors who have started internal 
groups to try and address these issues. I've personally spoken to two 
of these companies about their internal initiatives.

So, as I said earlier, many/most of these companies are going to have 
to change their business model eventually if they want to be around.

On Oct 7, 2003, at 4:54 PM, <prai at prady.com> wrote:

> Call me 'lunatic', but I think ‘Microsoft’ is the perfect example to
> counter your argument. They pack the bugs with each releases, while 
> some
> of the best (and perfect) things have never gained any such approval of
> the market.
>
> But don't get me wrong - I am pro-user, but I am pro-customer too. At
> times, design decisions are more strategic than straight line. And I 
> give
> enough benefit of doubt to those who pays me for 'design' and keeps
> responsibility of their users themselves.
>
> Pradyot Rai

Cheers!

Todd R. Warfel
User Experience Architect
MessageFirst | making products easier to use
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