Why people don't buy Open Source ..
I finally realised and it's so true. People don't buy open source because the
opensource companies don't give free movie tickets, iPods, Moutain bikes, City Trips , the proprietary companies do.. the hardware companies do, but the people that sell open source services don't.
I remember a couple of years ago when working for one of the larger mobile operators in Belgium and we had to decide on some new platforms.. the technical people were invited to some technical sessions 5km from our office by different vendors. We actually had already decided without those sessions by marketeers that didn't even knew the answers to our questions. But.. the management got invited to a full week visit to some manufacturer in California , when they came back we were not even heard about our opinions.. the deals were already closed.
And it wasn't our choice.
In other unrelated news I finally found time to upgrade a MySQL Cluster test platform to 5.1.9 ,
I could already reproduce at least 1 bug I initially found in 5.1.6... let's see what happens next .