I tried to introduce some paradigm shifts into our sales
foce by educating them for about four hours on Open Source
and how money can be made selling exactly that. I then
proceeded to show some of our stuff that actually is
OpenSource, finding a highly disinterested crowd at the end
of the day. If they can't sell it (and make a commission
out of it) they're not interested. So we changed a few
commissions to reflect our business model: there's money to
be made for them by giving away Open Source components for
free.
Harold and I are working on converting everything in the
Campbell office over to Linux and Plan 9. Our new brochures
show a smiling admin/secretary and read "Even our front-
desk uses Unix". Inside you find the first of three
campaigns to migrate companies to Linux or BSD as part of
the Risk Management stuff we do. The coolest thing today (a
too warm sunday, I tell ya) was finding drivers for the
Minolta QMS color laser printer and Linux online. And a lot
of documentation on QMS and SNMP. I love it when stuff like
that happens.
On the Evil Empire side, I dug out VC++ this morning
and wrote a short program to eliminate Nimda-Stuff within a
whole netblock.
Oh, and I started cleaning up my home-office, found some
very interesting things I thought I had left in germany
when moving over here and spent about an hour writing
another sensor for NOBAD using PGP to ensure control file
integrity.