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Hello,
How do I sell Free software to a large company? I work at a call center, and
I want to convince the Powers-That-Be to use Zope in place of the webserver
they are currently using (which is probably IIS), and PostgreSQL as the
backend database.
I had created an Access database for all of the people in our call center to
use, and it would have normally had a shortcut to everyone's desktops from a
shared drive, but someone thought it would be a good idea to upload it to the
webserver and just put a link to it, and it work somehow....But no....I
wanted to show them what I've done with Zope/PostgreSQL on my own to explain
how much better and easier and more flexible and secure it could be...I
wanted to introduce this software combination to them, but I got bogged down
in the "Free software" type of explanations...what is free software, why is
it better for because it's free...etc. I know (almost intrinsically) why it's
better, but getting that across is a problem. For instance, the licensing
problems that come with either IIS or Access/SQLServer vs. the lack of
problem with Zope/PSQL....I wasn't very prepared for the presentation, but
I'd like to be in the future if I'm going to get anywhere with this stuff. I
want to explain the benefits, without getting too much into the tech part of
it, and without getting too deep into the philosophy behind it. This
introduction of this software is very tricky...
Russell
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