How open source saved my sales floor.
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| For hardware, I bought 30 used 700mhz PC's from a call center,
| at $20/machine, and a slightly more powerful machine to run the
| server. Seeing as the computers were all old and crappy, I
| installed Xubuntu. With such a lightweight distro, it runs
| incredibly smoothly. And since salespeople aren't all that
| bright, I just told them they were Macs, and they loved it.
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http://donteatrocks.com/?p=7
Related:
[Opinion] Switch to Linux? No. Get a Mac Clone.
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| I'm a marketing guy, and I look at everything in my world from a marketing
| perspective. From that perspective I think this whole "Switch to Linux"
| thing is unnecessarily hard work - so I take an easier approach to help
| people move in that direction.
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| [...]
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| And to finish this article, Kudos to Linux. I get two reactions when
| people look at the desktop on my Laptop and Desktop. One is.. "Er.. is
| that a Mac?" and the other is "Why don't you just buy a Mac?". Well
| kudos is due, because I don't NEED to buy a Mac. I can get the Mac
| look and feel, which I like, and the massive productivity boost of
| the desktop cube ( and enjoyable extras ) even on my three year
| old HP laptop.
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http://linuxscorecard.blogspot.com/2007/03/switch-to-linux-no-get-mac-clone.html
http://tinyurl.com/3bsk5l
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