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Written by machiner
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Thursday, 16 April 2009 07:06 |
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This morning (this actually occured yesterday morning) I had the occassion to speak with a gentleman in the "Tire-Changing-Place's" waiting room. He was sporting a tie and carrying a Blackberry so I knew he was with corporate America. I wanted to ask this guy a question. "Pardon me", I said, "Can I ask you a question?", I asked. "Sure", he said.
"Are you aware of any Open Source software that you guys might be using at work?"
Immediately he responded with "No." But a moment later he confessed that indeed, and he tried to remember the name....we use Open Office. He remembered.
I next asked if there was any dissention in-house because of using it. He said no way, people were happy. We talked a little more about open source and he told me that his house used Goldmine, which is an app I used in the past as well. It's a sales babysitter, but he brought it up for the mail integration and he didn't like using it instead of Outlook because it didn't jibe with some of the other hardware/software he was using.
A legitimate complaint but one I can't speak to as it's an in-house proprietary concern. After a few more minutes of discussion we arrived at the conclusion that the software doesn't really matter, it's the function. What does matter, though, to this random gentleman and to me, too, is the control proprietary software vendors have over their end-using customers.
Spooky indeed.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 16 April 2009 07:08 |
