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近日,惠普表示将向 Sun 公司的 So-laris 操作系统用户免费提供价值2.5万美元的服务和设备,作为一种促使Solaris 用户转向使用惠普基于 Linux 开放式系统的激励措施。据悉,这个价值为2.5万美元的服务包括系统评估、应用软件移植和数据移植。惠普此举,绝对不是出于一副慈善心肠的义举;而获得2.5万美元资助的用户也不要以为自己意外捞到了一顿免费午餐。Forrester 资讯公司的分析师托德指出,多年来,各数据库厂商一直在积极地吸引其它厂商的客户,这是一种典型的吸引拿不定主意的客户的营销策略。那么,惠普广泛施舍的目的何在?很明显,那区区2.5万美元,不过是惠普为了放长线钓大鱼而预先付出的一点诱
Recently, HP said it will provide Sun’s So-laris operating system users free 25,000 US dollars worth of services and equipment, as a way to promote Solaris users to use HP’s Linux-based open-system incentives. It is reported that this value of 25,000 US dollars of services, including system assessment, application software migration and data migration. Hewlett-Packard’s move is definitely not out of a charity, and get 25,000 US dollars of subsidized users do not think they accidentally got a free lunch. Todd, an analyst with Forrester Research Inc., said database vendors have been aggressively attracting customers from other vendors over the years, a typical marketing tactic to entice undecided clients. So, what is the purpose of Hewlett-Packard’s extensive charity? Clearly, that area of 25,000 US dollars, but HP’s long-haul fishing in order to pre-pay a little lure