On February 18, 2007 at 22:34, Steve@EI said...
Microsoft is our dominate platform, nearly every customer
you will have in the next two years will already own a
PC with the Vista OS and be using it for movies, tv, pictures,
and music. Think about expanding that platform and making
it better and more powerful, rather than trying to sell
against it. You can not convince a lexus owner that there
is anything better and they have the hgihest return buyer
rate of any luxury automobile.
I did not write the above. I agree that nowhere previously did you suggest a hardware paradigm but I think it reasonable to conclude from the above that you expect to deploy your software into this sort of hardware configuration. Otherwise, who gives a damn whether you are running XP, Ly nix, or a proprietary OS? As long as your application is residing safe and secure in a separate box from the one being used for "movies, TV, pictures and music" I have little problem with your point. But no client cares about the OS. He wants a system that works for a price he is willing to pay. What you wrote above suggests that you expect to deploy your application on the front end not the back. These are very different solutions.
