Installfest Market

[Andrew Hammond]

On 31-Aug-05, at 11:55, Christopher Browne wrote:

> On 8/30/05, teddy mills <teddymills-VFlxZYho3OA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> I think they next installfest should be targeted for Enterprise  
>> and Servers.
>> The target should be people who want to use Linux in business and for
>> their servers.
>
> This sort of thing is something that folks like HP or IBM ought to
> want to run themselves, there being no particular value to GTALUG
> participation in the matter.
>
> That is a sales presentation, something GTALUG hasn't really got
> relevant resources for.


More to the point, who would bring a server to an install fest? Given  
how trivial it has become to install and configure linux (at least to  
the level which can be expected at an install fest), any business  
that doesn't have sufficient skills in house (or under contract) for  
the install wouldn't have the skills for ongoing maintenance. That's  
a recipe for failure. I don't think that's the kind of word-of-mouth  
that Linux either needs or wants.

I suggest that small business is still really a domain for  
contractors. If a bunch of contractors want to organize under the  
auspices of TLUG to offer free installs as a loss-leader for  
maintenance contracts, well, that's a different thing. LinuxCaffe is  
currently organizing a linux contractors contact list (or something  
like that anyway). Perhaps that would be the right forum to set up  
something like this.

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