FilePro running on Unix vs Windows

[Brian K. White]

> As Walter said, a CIO will take some other considerations to take into
> account when selecting a technology platform for business, such as
> availability of personnel skilled in the technology, training materials 
> and
> software availability.  We are currently in the process of replacing our 
> SCO
> UNIX/filePro system with a Windows Server2003 based ERP package.  I have
> UNIX experience, so why go with a Windows server when the application we
> chose does run on LINUX?  25 out of 35 off-the-shelf ERP packages that we
> looked at ran only on Windows.  Additionally, of the packages that do run 
> on
> UNIX many of the 3rd party add-ons that we would be interested in only run
> on Windows servers and we don't see the need/benefit of running multiple
> server platforms.  All of the ERP apps that did run on UNIX also ran on
> Windows and the majority of the customers using those apps were running 
> them
> on Windows servers.  And finally, there are far more training and 
> consulting
> resources available to us in the Windows environment.


Meanwhile, every day John E. has an anecdote to relate almost every week 
about various accountants and other buisiness associates who come into his 
office for one reason or another and happen to see his software in 
operation, and unanimously they ask "What is this? Where did you get it? Who 
sells it? It works way better than anything we've ever seen before..." And 
of course it's all stuff he wrote himself, in filepro, on unix.

By your logic John should never have bothered to become BETTER than the 25 
to 35 other common systems that all run on windows and that a lot of people 
are familiar with. His company is eating his competition for lunch and 
growing like crazy because the other all have the same ordinary inferior 
stuff as everyone else.

We are doing the same thing and it's because of the same reasons. Frankly, 
the more people out there who beleive in the logic you just tried to put 
over, the more I like it because it just makes it that much easier to stand 
out and outperform all that sea of common, commodity, stuff.

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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