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<BODY>Where I work we are an MCSP and get shipments like this. We got our monthly shipment yesterday, and I'll look through it today if I can and let ya know if we got them.<br>
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Doug<br>
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On Thu, 2001-08-23 at 23:57, Bob Tanner wrote:<pre><FONT COLOR="#737373">> http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-08-23-014-20-NW-MS</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373">> >Surprisingly enough, this month's edition contained 2 CDs titled: "Competing</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> >with Linux".</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> ></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > One is a "Sales Training CD" aimed at resellers and solution partners. It</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > primarily deals with how MS-zealots should deal with clients asking tough</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > questions about Linux viability. As you can guess, it's really focussed on</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > downplaying Linux as possible competition for MS-based solutions. From the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > tone of it, it looks like there is some serious concerns about Linux from the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > boys in Redmond. It talks about the threats Linux poses to MS solutions, but</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > even goes as far as telling resellers & solution partners whom to focus on in</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > a enterprise when trying to convince enterprises not to opt for Linux. There</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > is even - and this is *really* hilariously stupid - a multiple choice game at</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > the end of the CD where you have to answer a fictitious client's questions</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > about Linux. You score points by clicking on the answers that dismiss Linux as</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > a viable enterprise solution. I know some people here at the office (and those</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > folks are primarily an MS-centered business) had a good laugh about this. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Anyone get or can get one of these cds? </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> I'd like to read what MS says and I'd like to be able to dismiss their dismissal</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> of Linux. :-)</FONT>
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