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Passionate Users

by | Aug 28, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

I lifted this post from Luis Villas blog – he always seems to get to good stuff early. Maybe being a student again helps 😉

Anyway – this post – and others over there (I especially like the one on presentations – I’ll blog that later!) are really interesting.

This chart (from the post) – really re-states a lot of the concepts in Cluetrain; except in a table rather than 150 pages:
Chart

The rest of the post really goes on to discuss why ‘traditional marketing’ gets a bad press and how ‘neo-marketing’ (yuk) tries to change this.

My own personal viewpoint is that product/solution evangelism is going to be big in the next 12-18 months. Especially with the noise in the traditional marketing spaces. What will seem like more personal one-on-one conversations will make the difference. You reading this Ted?

Red Hat on Open Source

by | Aug 26, 2005 | evilzenscientist, fun stuff, Linux, Uncategorized

I knew I had this from several people last year – but I refound the article browsing snorps blog.

Matthew Szulik, Red Hat CEO talking to Computing in the UK – http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/analysis/2075934/putting-linux-desktop

Why Red Hat versus Novell-SuSE or Sun JDS on the desktop?

They’re all proprietary except us. They all have proprietary technology inside, not 100 per cent open source software. They continue to lock customers in to limit choice.

If you buy the Sun desktop, you’re going to buy into the proprietary Sun architecture. With SuSE there’s Red Carpet, integrated with other Novell technologies, still proprietary.

As the saying goes:

Matthew Szulik – I hereby request source to the 100% Open Source Red Hat solutions “Red Hat Network Proxy” and “Red Hat Network Satellite”

Here’s waiting.