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[Steve Blair]

Colin Anderson wrote:

>>The CTO is highly unlikely to know or care about the low level technology
>>decisions. It isn't something that bubbles up to his level or pay
>>grade. 
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>Unless it's presented to him as a means of doing something faster, better,
>more cheaply, better interop etc. Isn't that the value proposition in
>Asterisk? Maybe not to the CTO, but the CTO's underling, the second level
>manager. Presumably, this guy would have the CTO's ear.
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>I read an article about CN Rail in Canada which is kind of like Amtrack in
>the US. They had Linux trickle in as replacements for DNS servers running
>Solaris, I think. Something they paid big bucks for. It was goofy, because
>BIND is BIND, right? The biggest resistance was convincing the suits that
>this Linux thing wasn't a scam and offered the same featureset and
>reliability that Solaris did. Eventually what happened is that the suits
>looked around and found out that BIND-Linux was the preferred means of DNS
>for the Net, and all of a sudden it was legitimized for them. They started
>out with DNS, and eventually they migrated wholesale to Linux. 
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Hee Hee Hee. The " I read about Linux in Golf Digest syndrom" :-)

>I see the same thing in the Asterisk context. Mark builds a killer platform.
>The geeks go into convulsions of ectasy. They evangelize. The userbase
>builds. Slashdot lusers pester you with questions. You answer, they figure
>out sip.conf, and then they evangelize. More lusers come along and pester.
>You answer, with the patience of Job, then they evengelize. Eventually, a
>mainstream effect comes into play, and the platform starts to get mainstream
>acceptance. Hopefully, CTO of XYZ sees an article in the Wall Street Journal
>(more legitimate than Wired? Depends.) about this thing, and calls up his
>batman and says "Find out about this thing" and then at that point Mark can
>finally afford his hot tub. (whatever happened to that anyway?)
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It's the same old problem. Technical people rarely speak 
Business-eeezzz. As a result technology has to
hit main stream before someone can wrap the business language around it 
so decision makers understand
the value.

>Sorry about the math. Duh. 
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