On 2011-11-19 07:46, David Morris wrote:
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, John R. Levine wrote:
* - "You don't want to get locked into open source", credited to an IBM
salesman
Because once you try an open source mail reader, you'll never want to go
back to Lotus Notes? :-)
That was way before IBM ever thought of buying the remains of Lotus.
That makes it sound like an urban rumor to me ... I'm pretty sure that
general awareness of open source as a concept let alone competator an IBM
sales man needed to be concerned about post dates IBM's acquisition of
Lotus.
Definitely. It was my boss's boss in IBM, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, who
turned IBM on to Linux and open source in general, and that was years
after IBM bought Lotus and made all employees use Notes.
I can believe it took a year or three for this to influence the salespeople
whose bonus depended on selling proprietary software.
Brian
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