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1. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jul-2020 13:48:14 EDT Douglas A. Whitfield

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   look at my purdy picture: https://www.openlogic.com/open-at-home
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jul-2020 14:34:50 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     • Douglas A. Whitfield
     @musicman Enterprise Architect now? #Fancy
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jul-2020 10:50:58 EDT Douglas A. Whitfield

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     • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
     yeah, the whole "Enterprise" thing is our marketing thing. Like I don't know if our sales people would literally tell a startup to go to Tidelift because it is harder to get a company to switch than to join but to me Tidelift is our only competitor. That said, what we offer is very different than what Tidelift offers. I know some in the organization see Red Hat as a competitor,…
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jul-2020 15:03:44 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     • Douglas A. Whitfield
     @musicman Yeah, well “enterprise” does seem to be the magic word that unlocks corporate (and government) CIOs’ ears and turns their attention to what the salesperson is presenting.
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Friday, 31-Jul-2020 11:54:57 EDT Douglas A. Whitfield

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     • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
     well, "enterprise" is largely a bad word in the startup space, to be equated with slow and/or complicated. I am having a related argument about Java. Maybe it is true that the Java ecosystem is too complicated. I was just yesterday unable to get something to work in IntelliJ and I have no idea why. It works in #Eclipse. In any case, I think the Java-naysayers probably don't kno…
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