[ale] Selling Linux (fwd)

[Ben Ostrowsky]

> I am about to meet a possible customer to do some inventory tracking
> software.  They are a Lumber yard so of course they do not have any such
> thing as an IT staff.  They want Windows but I want to suggest Linux.
> How can a customer with almost zero IT training be sold on Linux.  How
> would I go about supporting the customer (in a different city no less).

Here's an excellent starting point:

http://zgp.org/~dmarti/linuxmanship/

Ben


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