It is 2013.
Vista sent many computer users to Linux.
Windows 8 will also be doing that.
Percentage-wise, Linux will most likely remain a minority in terms of desktop OS. However, two per cent of 2 billion is a number large enough for PC vendors to sit up and take notice.
Yesterday, I asked a young salesman if his shop can provide a price list to customers so that we can configure and order the way we want these. One can do that online at www.comx.co.za but I thought of supporting a local business and deal with a real person instead of doing it online. He failed to see the opportunity and presented me with one obstacle after the other. He also displayed his ignorance by stating that there was no market for Linux. When I told him about the global migration, he told me about the past and not the future.
He escaped his future yesterday by missing out an opportunity to learn from a client who has been around the block a few times more than he did. I thought I was doing him a favour by showing him a new path where he will come across a new revenue stream. He failed to recognize the opportunity.
It is a pity that so many sales executives, consultants and junior salespeople don't educate themselves and then expect informed customers to follow their inadequate advice. I have found them to remain in deficit.
It will be wonderful if someone other than me see the opportunity to open a store in a city with 3.8 million residents and provide notebooks sans an OS. Or selling it with FreeDOS. Moreover, if it can be offered with Linux-compatible hardware drivers. Manufacturers such as Mustek (Mecer), LG and Gigabyte, at least, should be able to do so. Perhaps also Chicony and Mitac. Some of these names are behind the well-respected brand names we see in our computer stores. Dell could be another possibility.
Vista sent many computer users to Linux.
Windows 8 will also be doing that.
Percentage-wise, Linux will most likely remain a minority in terms of desktop OS. However, two per cent of 2 billion is a number large enough for PC vendors to sit up and take notice.
Yesterday, I asked a young salesman if his shop can provide a price list to customers so that we can configure and order the way we want these. One can do that online at www.comx.co.za but I thought of supporting a local business and deal with a real person instead of doing it online. He failed to see the opportunity and presented me with one obstacle after the other. He also displayed his ignorance by stating that there was no market for Linux. When I told him about the global migration, he told me about the past and not the future.
He escaped his future yesterday by missing out an opportunity to learn from a client who has been around the block a few times more than he did. I thought I was doing him a favour by showing him a new path where he will come across a new revenue stream. He failed to recognize the opportunity.
It is a pity that so many sales executives, consultants and junior salespeople don't educate themselves and then expect informed customers to follow their inadequate advice. I have found them to remain in deficit.
It will be wonderful if someone other than me see the opportunity to open a store in a city with 3.8 million residents and provide notebooks sans an OS. Or selling it with FreeDOS. Moreover, if it can be offered with Linux-compatible hardware drivers. Manufacturers such as Mustek (Mecer), LG and Gigabyte, at least, should be able to do so. Perhaps also Chicony and Mitac. Some of these names are behind the well-respected brand names we see in our computer stores. Dell could be another possibility.
