[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“The industry farming supplier Farmlands Trading Society serves
is, by necessity, not particularly squeamish. However, when faced
with the prospect of an operating system upgrade costing hundreds
of thousands of dollars in licensing fees, Farmlands decided to put
an end to what it perceived as business bloodshed.“‘On one hand, we had Microsoft bleeding us for licence fees. On
the other, it was SCO for Unix. I can’t stand parting with money
for software licensing, and the costs were getting annoying,’ says
Craig Waterhouse, commercial manager and ‘honorary’ chief
information officer for Farmlands…”