[Cialug] Linux hardware support

[Jeff Davis]

No, definitely not.
However I've come to expect such rhetoric from sales/marketing people.

I told him that I thought the product was an okay fit for most sales and execs,
but I have IT folks who travel between offices and 2 are linux users and
one is a mac user.   It doesn't do me much good if I can't deploy it to *all* 
the people who need it.

I asked him if they were developing the tools for mac/linux or were
even planning on doing so, he was going to check it out and get back
to me.  I'm still waiting..........



Lee wrote:
> "asked me if I really had enough mobile linux users to need it"
> 
> Not the kind of response a potential business customer likes to hear. I 
> think going with another solution is easier than forcing my user base to 
> switch platforms for just one tool.
> 
> 
> Jeff Davis wrote:
> 
>>
>> Back in August I went to a presentation from Sprint
>> focusing on their EVDO cards and the tools they have
>> to monitor your wireless assets.
>>
>> The capabilities were interesting but of course my
>> first question was "does this work on linux?"
>>
>> He didn't know, and got someone else who asked me
>> if I really had enough mobile linux users to need it.
>>
>> I figure even if no one else asked for it, I need
>> to speak up so they know that not everyone is
>> satisfied with what they were offering.
>>
>> -Jeff
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> David Champion wrote:
>>
>>> This series of articles posted on /. got me thinking...
>>>
>>> http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1134910,00.html 
>>>
>>> http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1134908,00.html 
>>>
>>> http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1134909,00.html 
>>>
>>>
>>> I think what needs to happen is for people to get the attention of 
>>> hardware companies and vendors, to make them start paying attention 
>>> to the lack of Linux drivers.
>>>
>>> A few ways to accomplish this:
>>>
>>> Obviously emailing or calling them and requesting the drivers is one 
>>> method. We could do a petition, but I've never been a big fan of those.
>>>
>>> A subversive way of doing it would be to have people keep going in to 
>>> the vendors and asking for a WiFi card that will work with Linux, for 
>>> instance. According to the article, there were no cards available at 
>>> either CompUSA or BestBuy that said they were Linux compatible. I 
>>> know there are some that are, but a lot of times that requires you to 
>>> either download & compile drivers, or to use ndiswrapper.
>>>
>>> Might be something to discuss at the meeting, or afterwards over a 
>>> few beverages. :)
>>>
>>> -dc
>>>
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