"As our friend above notes, after pushing his own product via Comment Space, this open-source OS is 'still in alpha stage, meaning it is not feature complete and is not recommended for everyday use.'
What the heck is the point of EVEN recommending something if you already know it's in Alpha? That's a Marketing department talking - guys who are just trying to make the sale and not thinking about the ramifications of deploying a product to tens of thousands of users that's not even ready yet.
I'm not a fan of GM or of CTOs in general, but at least I respect a guy who is not afraid to back off when he sees a problem bigger than he wants to tackle. What I don't respect are people who don't think about the real-world users of software and therefore, think it's all about opening their mouth to recommend something without thinking of what it might cost to execute.
I've run Operations in small and large companies for several years, it's exhausting to cope with the issues around Enterprise applications and hardware and then have someone who *should* know what they're talking about run up and go "I don't understand...why don't we use more open source tools?"
I always want to say, "Just stop at the part where you said you didn't understand. You're right, you don't...go learn and then understand and then come back into the room. Then you'll have something to contribute."
It's like listening to good ol' boys wax poetic about Chevy when they see a broken-down Ford. I thought IT and software dev and open-source was made up of people who were more intelligent than that. I'd love to think so - but it's hard to believe it when I see people take every opportunity to present a straw-man, inch-deep argument to a problem that takes so much more to solve."
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