[ubuntu-nz] ubuntu-nz going forward

[Johann Schoonees]

Dave Lane wrote:
> 
> We (Egressive) support about 15-20 companies running one or more Ubuntu 
> Linux servers, with a steady stream of new customers coming to us...  We 
> also have quite a lot of hosting infrastructure all running Dapper (some 
> on Xen).
> 
> Business people are definitely keen to get away from Microsoft: most 
> have heard that Linux is the way to go and we have no trouble convincing 
> them to go with Ubuntu (some ask for it by name!).  It simply solves 
> their business problems more thoroughly and cost effectively than other 
> solutions (we recently converted a committed Novell/GroupWise shop to 
> Ubuntu beating, out both a Novell Linux and a MS SBS bid) - and it keeps 
> on doing so.  Our business is mostly word-of-mouth.

This is exactly what I was talking about (also Andrew's 100-300 seat 
deployments in another message).  It's the sort of information, 
floating around on mailing lists, that could be great for advocacy if 
collected on one site.

Any takers? :-)

Johann

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