[General] Why You Can't Pry IE6 Out of Their Cold, Dead Hands

[Burhan Khalid]

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On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> A few weeks back, I met with a doctor from Computer Engineering -
> Kuwait University; he told me that Microsoft has approached him
> personally and offered FREE email accounts for every alumni (graduate)
> and the creation of a portal to communicate and be in touch with all
> the graduates. Add to that, allowing each graduate to create a profile
> and publish his notes (blog) and CV online. All for free.
> I told the doctor that Google does offer such services and they have
> special offers for educational organizations, but his argument was
> strong and unfortunately valid: Google has no presence in Kuwait,
> while Microsoft does. So if they ever need anything, they could meet
> anyone or talk to anyone in person; something that is annoyingly a
> requirement in the Arab world.
>
>
It is not a requirement, it is an excuse to blame someone. Go to any IT/IS
manager in any reasonable sized company in Kuwait and ask them how lovely
and headache free experience they have had with "local" partners. Trust me,
no one does. There are only a few - very few - companies that have DIRECT
presence in Kuwait. Nokia/Siemens, HP, IBM (through GBM).  Everyone else is
either in Egypt, Turkey or Dubai (including Google, which has offices in
Dubai Internet City).

Its a great myth that there is "presence" in Kuwait. There are tons of
channel partners, VARs, distributors and other talking parrots - but when
you really get stuck and you need help from the company itself (as is always
the case) you ring a number in Dubai.

So, I'm not sure how valid your professor's argument is.



>  On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Ossama Khayat <okhayat at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Awareness? Man people just want to use what they know. Come see how much
> > time I spent making awareness and now things are moving more and more
> > towards Micros......t!!!! Especially that the "e"-government seems to be
> > build on "I don't want to mentioned its name" now even websites will move
> to
> > SharrPoint (Evil Point)! Why? "To cope with E-GOV standards"!!!
>

 E-government standard is sharepoint? This explains a lot.


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> >
> > From: Bashar Al-Abdulhadi <bashar at kuwaitnet.net>
> > To: General OpenSource Discussion <general at oskw.org>
> > Sent: Mon, February 22, 2010 11:28:19 AM
> > Subject: Re: [General] Why You Can't Pry IE6 Out of Their Cold, Dead
> Hands
> >
> > Speaking of Awareness, where does "OSKW Con" stands ?
> > Ahmad/Burhan/Majed/Ossama/Talal yes and me
> >
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