[Ilugc] [Commercial] ELPA is here ! My Company and My Vision #nsisodiya

[Arun Venkataswamy]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Narendra Sisodiya <
narendra at narendrasisodiya.com> wrote:

> PS: Think like MAC, a hardware and a software, which just work...
>

Good Idea. That will be great.



> PS1: Also, the customer/market I am aiming is not LUG, i am aiming those
> who
> do not know Linux atall, So I needed not sit for compatibility for all
> Distro..
>

I don't know many Linux users who are not geeks. And the non geeks want to
stick to Windows. But this is my opinion. I am sure you would have done some
research before starting the business.

All the very best. I wish you success. We need more people like you who want
to be on their own.

Out of my experience (in engineering line), I would also inform you of the
requirement of service people even before you start selling. People will be
willing to wait even for a day or two when they buy from a reputed brand,
but will want you 'yesterday' when they are dealing with a small/start up
company.

I did try Linux based systems for our machines (control and data acquisition
system) - They worked brilliantly even out performing Windows. BUT I had to
turn back to Windows the ONLY reason was service and support. It was very
easy for our clients in the North to get a local computer technician to sort
out issues in a Windows machine. The funny part was that even hardware
issues will not be addressed by the technician because Linux was installed
in it!

With regards,
Arun Venkataswamy.