Dear Steve,
Hi, this is François, from Mandriva.
I’m sure we are way too small for you to have heard of us. You know, we are one of these Linux company who is working hard to make its place in the market. We publish a Linux Distro, called Mandriva Linux. Mandriva Linux 2008, our last edition, has a pretty good review and we’re proud of it. You should try it, I’m sure you’d like it. We also happen to be one of the Linux companies that did not sign an agreement with your company (nobody’s perfect).
We recently closed a deal with the Nigerian Government. Maybe you heard about it, Steve. They were looking for an affordable hardware+software solution for their schools. The initial batch was 17,000 machines. We had a good deal to respond to their need: the Classmate PC from Intel, with a customized Mandriva Linux solution. We presented the solution to the local government, they liked the machine, they liked our system, they liked what we offered them, especially the fact that it was open, and that we could customize it for their country and so on.
Then, your people get in the game and the deal got more competitive. I would not say it got dirty, but someone could have said that. Your team fought and fought again the deal, but still the customer was happy with the CMPC and Mandriva.
We actually closed the deal, we took the order, we qualified the software, we got the machine shipped. To conclude, we did our job. And, the machine are being delivered right now.
Now, we hear a different story from the customer : “we shall pay for the Mandriva Software as agreed, but we shall replace it by Windows afterward.�
Wow! I’m impressed, Steve! What have you done to these guys to make them change their mind like this? It’s quite clear to me, and it will be to everyone. How do you call what you just did Steve? There is various names for it, I’m sure you know them.
Of course, I will keep fighting this one and the next one, and the next one. You have the money, the power, and maybe we have a different sense of ethics you and I, but I still believe that hard work, good technology and ethics can win too.
cheers
François
PS: a message to our friends in Nigeria: it’s still time to do the right thing and make the right choice, you will get lots of support for it and excellent services!
Et maintenant, pour les francophones (traduction par Caroline) :
Je me présente : François de Mandriva.
Je pense que nous sommes beaucoup trop petit pour que vous ayez, un jour, entendu parler de nous. Souvenez-vous, nous sommes une de ces sociétés Linux qui travaillent dur pour se faire une place sur le marché. Nous éditons une distribution Linux, appelée Mandriva Linux. Mandriva Linux 2008, notre dernière édition, a d’assez bonnes critiques et nous en sommes fiers. Vous devriez l’essayer, je suis sûr que vous l’adoreriez. Nous sommes aussi l’une des sociétés Linux qui n’a pas signé d’accord avec votre compagnie (personne n’est parfait).
Nous avons récemment conclu un marché avec le gouvernement Nigérian. Peut-être en avez-vous entendu parler ? Ils recherchaient une solution logicielle et matérielle abordable pour leurs écoles. La commande initiale était de 17,000 machines. Nous avions une bonne offre qui nous permettait de répondre à leur besoin : le Classmate PC d’INTEL, fourni avec une version adaptée de la solution Mandriva Linux. Nous avions présenté la solution au gouvernement local, ils ont aimé la machine, ils ont aimé notre système, ils ont aimé ce que nous leurs offrions, spécialement l’aspect ouvert et le fait que nous pouvions l’adapter aux besoins de leur pays et même plus.
Puis, votre équipe s’est jointe à la partie et le marché devint plus compétitif. Je ne peux faire de commentaires sur ce point mais certains pourront le faire. Votre équipe s’est battue et se battra encore, mais le client était satisfait du Classmate PC et de Mandriva.
Nous avons conclu le marché, nous avons compris la demande, nous avons qualifié le système et nous l’avons intégré à la machine. Pour conclure, nous avons fait notre travail. Et la machine est désormais livrable.
Maintenant, nous entendons différentes histoires de notre client : “nous allons payer pour les logiciels Mandriva comme prévu dans nos accords, mais ce dernier sera remplacé par Windows.”
Je suis impressionné, Steve ! Qu’avez-vous fait à ces personnes pour les faire changer d’avis ? C’est clair pour moi, et ça le sera pour tous. Comment appelez-vous ce que vous venez de faire ? Il y a plusieurs noms pour cela, je suis sûr que vous les connaissez bien.
Bien entendu, je continuerai à me battre cette fois et la prochaine et encore la prochaine. Vous avez l’argent, le pouvoir et peut être avons nous des définitions différentes de l’éthique. Je reste persuadé que le travail, les bonnes technologies et l’ethique peuvent aussi gagner.
Cordialement,
François
PS: message à nos amis du Nigéria : il n’est pas trop tard pour faire le bon choix, vous aurez beaucoup de soutien pour cela et des services excellents !
Tags: Classmate PC, distribution, François, hardware, Intel, linux, Mandriva
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Nigerian: CONGRATULARIONS !!!
95% of the world uses Windows, why would you stay on 5% side ???
Fast facts about Microsoft Nigeria
Year established:2000
Number of employees:20
Function/focus of office:Drive sales, develop and manage the channel, as well as improve the experiences of customers and partners in Nigeria and Ghana
Key leaders in office: Gerald Ilukwe – Country Manager, Lanre Onasanya – SMS&P Manager, Martin Nwoga – Services Lead, Uloma Umeano – Marketing Manager
Key partners:Infosoft/Infographics, CIS Ghana, IPMC Ghana, ATDS, DCK, Bitrax-Axxent
Key customers:Federal Government of Nigeria, MTN Communications Nigeria, Ghana Telecoms, ADB Bank Ghana, UBA Plc, Vmobile Nigeria, NLNG Limited, Zinox Technologies, Omatek Computers Limited
Provide an overview of key challenges your local employees face
We face two primary challenges here. Firstly, there is a marked lack of awareness among businesses and consumers around intellectual property rights, software piracy and copyright issues. Investment in legal software is often lower on the list of corporate priorities. This makes the sales process challenging and tedious.
The second challenge is to manage customer expectations regarding technical support. Many of them are not used to paying for consulting or support services (especially at Microsoft rates!) and, to make matters worse, many people almost expect it as a free benefit of having licenced software. This is made even more difficult given that open source software is perceived as ‘free’.
Provide a brief summary of your office’s strategy growth (include snapshot of past, present and future)
Microsoft Nigeria was founded in 2000 with a team of four people as a satellite office of the Microsoft West and Central Africa presence in the Ivory Coast. We became independent of Abidjan by 2002 and today we are proud to have achieved a 40% year-on-year growth over our last five years of operation.
Our business has witnessed significant growth in COEM, telecommunications, financial services and the public sector. We expect this to continue in the short to medium term. We are also building our services business to cope with increase demand for product support and consulting.
In December 2004, we opened a satellite office in the Nigerian capital of Abuja. The Abuja office will be responsible for managing the Enterprise Agreement that Microsoft signed with the Nigerian government last year. We also plan to bring the benefits of technology to bear on primary, secondary and tertiary education institutions.
Provide a brief overview of citizenship activities in your country or region
The citizenship activities in Nigeria and Ghana are operated primarily under the Partners in Learning (PiL) banner.
PIL
To succeed in what is rapidly becoming a global digital society Nigerian students need to gain experience of information and communication technology (ICT) and schools must be supported in their endeavours to provide this.
To this end Microsoft and representatives of the government (via the Educational Tax Fund) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that marks the local roll out of Microsoft’s PiL programme.
With PiL, Microsoft focuses initially on training and developing the ICT skills of the teachers. Once that is completed, they can lead training and effectively enhance the experience had by their students.
We work closely with those teachers and other educational leaders – such as SchoolNet – to help develop the curricula such that technology can play a greater role. And we offer the support and resources necessary to underpin the success in the classroom.
In addition to supporting schools with technology and training, the ETF and Microsoft are seeking to establish a forum of strategic organisations that can help develop a roadmap for increasing ICT literacy among Nigeria’s society. Such a forum would naturally support the technology drive in the education sector. And it would help to develop a Teacher Training Methodology (TIM) that could act as the future standard for schools across the country.
This is not about the sporadic donation of technology or the one-off signing of a document of intent. We are here to create sustainable long-term models for the transformation of technology’s role in the education sector by bringing our resources, practices and programmes together in partnership with the efforts of the Nigerian government.
Fresh Start for Donated Computers
To assist the government of Ghana to help primary and secondary schools benefit from the possibilities created by information and communication technology we launched the ‘Fresh Start for Donated Computers’ programme in Accra, the capital of Ghana, in MONTH.
The move forms part of the company’s investment in training, education, capacity-building and computer skills development across Africa. It is also a component of the greater ‘Partners in Learning’ initiative – the global programme that aims to empower teachers and students to achieve their full potential by providing technology and training in education.
The Fresh Start for Donated Computers programme is designed to provide licenced copies of the Windows 98 and Windows 2000 operating system to schools that are using personal computers (PCs) – Pentium II processors or older – that have been donated to them.
Donated PCs are a fundamental part of educational programmes around the world; it is estimated that there are around 600 000 such computers in schools across Africa. The challenge comes when the hardware is supplied without the legitimate operating system licence.
By virtue of its nature the Fresh Start for Donated Computers programme supports the high-profile Nepad eSchools initiative – the primary objective of which is to ensure that every African youth leaving school has the necessary ICT skills to compete in the digital age.
Our fundamental goal is to ensure that the latest technology is made available to students and teachers. Through the Fresh Start for Donated Computers programme, we will be helping schools to upgrade the donated computers that they rely on for the developmental growth of their students.
The Lagos Digital Village
Last year Microsoft joined forces with the Lagos State government (via the Ministry of Technology) to establish the Lagos Digital Village. The project is based at in Ebute Metta (in Lagos) and aims to create “a new generation of Nigerian youth who are well-equipped with appropriate IT skills and are therefore well positioned for personal development, nation building and global participation.
The project was commissioned on 28 May 2004 with the launch of a high-speed Internet café for the public (via a grant from the Nigeria-America Information Initiative). Since that time, courses have continued to be run on first steps (intro to computing), intricate details (how to build your own computer), work better (office productivity tools) and great leap (the Net and Web). Programme lengths range from three weeks to two months, depending on the course. Fifty-five students graduated in September last year.
What are some unique features/benefits about your physical(ly) work space?
We have two offices in Nigeria – one is centred on Victoria Island in Lagos, the commercial and corporate capital of Nigeria, enabling us to service our corporate and vertical market customers. The other is in Abuja, the actual capital of the country and the political hub. This office allows us to work closely with the Federal Government – one of our largest and most important customers in the region. Our main office in Nigeria is located in Victoria Island in a building on the oceanfront, so we have a fantastic view of the Atlantic!
What do you want Microsoft employees around the world to know about your office or region?
From a business point of view, Nigeria represents one of the most rapidly-growing markets on the continent. There is a great deal of local and foreign direct investment with many of the world’s largest multinational IT (and other) companies maintaining a direct or indirect presence here.
While there is an incredible potential and vast natural resource, it’s important to remember that Nigeria is still fraught with the socio-economic dichotomies often prevalent in developing African nations. There is a large digital divide, a definite disparity in income levels around the country and a large population.
Nigerians are proud people, which is why we at Microsoft call ourselves the “Green with Prideâ€? team. The ‘green’ comes from our national colours: the Nigerian flag is green and white. The ‘pride’ element, as mentioned, is an accurate description of the general psyche of the typical Nigerian. It also denotes the work attitude that we have at our offices here. We are proud that Microsoft, one of the largest and most successful companies in the world, has instilled absolute trust in local talents in the management of its affairs in Nigeria. Microsoft is 100% multinational and 100% proudly Nigerian. (Oh, yes, and we sing too – we have a brilliant team anthem!)
Bonjour,
Je cherchais à moderniser W98SE !
J’ai changé d’horizon pour mon plus grand plaisir : Mandriva 2007 Spring SuperPack !
Beau cadeau pour mes 60 ans et 20 ans d’informatique . Aucune comparaison à faire !
Le gros bill et ses $ n’arrivent même pas aux orteils de mes cochons bretons que j’insulterais en traitant le gros bill de cochon !
De toute façon tout ce qu’il a pondu après W98SE est raté : XP, Vista ne servent que d’attrapes-vers ! Son empire crève et plus vite il disparaîtra, plus vite le monde libre et Mandriva que je soutiens haut et fort s’en porteront mieux !
Mort au gros bill et à ses nuisances, mort à l’esclavagisme !
Libérez-vous de vos chaînes d’esclaves et venez nous rejoindre chez Mandriva !
Didier de Bretagne ( France ) .
This is not about business by Microsoft. I believe and knowfrom History that some Nigerian in the Education sector has been bribed by Microsoft. This is not about clout. A deal is a deal unless somme millions of bribery dollars has changed hands. Microsoft should redeem itself and end corruption in Nigeria by allowing deals to proceed.
I don’t understand what all this fuss is about,Someone buys a laptop or PC that comes pre-installed with windows (also paying for the software) then remove windows and install mandriva no one complains.
Then he do the opposite and everyone takes up arms.
Lets face it the Nigerian government wanted a good cheap hardware deal and they got it and they probably also got a good deal on OS from Microsft as well. So they went for it. What is this Francois complaining about? Wasnt he paid or did they violate a contract that he can sue them for? If they did he can go ahead ad sue and stop whinning.
Did he ever go to Nigeria to protect his investment? Or did he just read up all the drivel and nonsense about Nigeria being a corrupt country full of spammers like the rest of you and decide to stay away as far as possible.
On spam: I recieve more spam on people trying to sell me viagra or sell me a home ownership loan or even winning a lottery than Nigerians trying to get me to move millions out of the country and I treat them all the same way: I trash them.
Lets concentrate on the real issue being poor marketing and follow up and leave Nigeria’s ethics or lack of it out of the issue
“Maybe you should spend your time developing a better product at a better price. Mandriva has come a long way, but apparently there is still room for improvement.”
What’s better than zero? Oh, sorry, Microsoft will go to any lengths to undercut anybody else, even to the point of giving Windows for negative prices.
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“Money talks higher…..”
in the near future quality will talk higher
First of all, this is all conjecture about what Microsoft may or may not have done. For so many of you to assume that something illegal went on when no facts are in eveidence just kills your credibility. Get a grip. As amusing as these posts from the Linux fanatics are, you just make yourselves look like nutcases when you post rants like these.
Secondly, what the Nigerians do or don’t do with their new machines is their business. Posting open letters to the world insinuating that something illegal took place is just bad business. To complain about a competitor’s ethics while being unethical in the writing of the letter is like the pot calling the kettle black.
Lastly, as to the grammar issues in the letter, it doesn’t matter that French is his native tongue. He wrote the letter in English, and it should have been proofread by someone that had good English skills before he published it to the world. In that regard, not only was the letter indicative of poor ethics and a cry baby mentality, it was also indicative of poor quality control. I would have second thoughts about any company that represented themselves in such a childish and poorly written way as they have.
Maybe he should have written it in Microsoft Word and let the grammar checker show him his mistakes…
Golpe baixo Steve!
tsc tsc
This is how the business is being done around the world. It would be the same for Mandriva. All companies in the world does that whether through bribery, organising games with hugh winning price and pretend to lost the game to the customer, free “Working trip” with only one to two days of factory visits and the rest of the “Working trip” in pub, strip shows, site seeing etc.
Come on, wake up. All the companies are corrupted no matter what they tells you about the ethics, their company regulation that does not allows them to do all the above etc. They still find creative ways of putting money in their customer’s hand.
Companies rule and individual like us we will be slave for them for the rest of our lives other than those who are born with monies and power. This is market capitalism at work.
So, live with it.
To those who pointed out that English is not François’ native language:
I know it is not. But this is no friendly handwritten note he sent to his pen friend in Redmond, it is the official statement of a CEO of a company which claims to be a competitor in the world wide corporate market. It would have taken only a couple of minutes to have it proofread by somebody. I am pretty sure that Steve B. would have thought about such a thing.
As for the whole letter, it’s not the first time the Mandriva CEO addressed the public after a lost deal. Remember the Ubuntu deal with the french parliament? Mandriva lost that one and the CEO complained in public that Ubuntu played unfair because they used the backing of Shuttleworth’s money to make an offer Mandriva could not match.
Let’s take just these 2 incidents and M. Bancilhon’s reactions: What do these reactions tell other corporate decision makers about the spirit of this company?
Mandriva is not selling groceries on a village marketplace, they decided some time ago that they want to make deals with the big boys. What do those big boys think about such a letter? That’s the main point. Maybe that these 2 letters did more harm to the company than the lost deals.
I am a Nigerian Linux advocate who is as disappointed as the next person that our school children will not have Linux on the Classmate PCS. However, I am disgusted with all the mudslinging and slanderous innuendo. If Francois or anybody has any proof of any wrongdoing then they should please notify the EFCC (www.efccnigeria.org) who will be happy to look into the matter.
I can’t understand why “mandriva haters” or people that think “mandriva sucks” come at this blog to say a lot of bullsh*t…
I read things like “you should spend your time on doing a decent system”… well… so, what the hell are you doing on mandriva blog? I’m not defending the way the letter was made, I don’t see any REAL anti-ethic facts… BUT we don’t know all the facts, so…
For these people, go spend your time with the “other system”. Win Apps? Well, I can run a lot of them from Mandriva and I was really shocked when I noticed that some of then run even better than on their native system. (No joking)
[...] le blog de Mandriva, la distibution Linux on peut lire une lettre ouverte de François Bancilhon à Steve [...]
[...] Now, we hear a different story from the customer : “we shall pay for the Mandriva Software as agreed, but we shall replace it by Windows afterward.�full story here [...]
For the folks from the Mandriva community and for all the GNU/Linux developers in general there is an old Chines saying: “A one-thousand mile journey starts with a single step.” so don’t give up the fight !
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When all the Windows troubles start (like virus problems and additional software etc), Nigeria will turn back to Mandriva.
Very surprisingly Microsoft took the time to answer to the allegations, mentioned in Bancilhon’s letter without giving a single proof.
Of course Microsoft denies any wrongdoing in the affair. “Microsoft has a strong relationship with the government in Nigeria…… Microsoft operates its business in accordance both with the laws of the countries in which it operates and with international law…… Micorsoft believes individuals, governments and other organizations should be free to choose the software that best meets their needs.”
Cited from:
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3708961
Now we all make comments every now and then about the “Evil Empire” and the bad boy in Redmond. But there’s a difference between such a comment in a webforum during a discussion and an official public statement of a company executive. Bancilhon should feel lucky that Microsoft did not take the time and the effort to start a law suit.
No people here that can admit that there should be another point of view?
Last Microsoft operating systems are very good, stable and much more easy to use than Linux ones?
Even the Mandriva, with all those KDE toys, is only a copy of Windows shell…
[...] Find English and French versions in: http://blog.mandriva.com/2007/10/31/an-open-letter-to-steve-ballmer/ [...]
Come on guys! Seriously, you wonder why the mass market isn’t taking on Linux in numbers? There’s a number of reasons, but comments like:
“I am proud to be a linux user and i’ll die as a linux user.”
“MS is like a drug dealer”
And then moaning about ethics. Come on – this is business.
Maybe, just maybe Microsoft presented a really good business case, stating the TCO on a volume licence agreement compared to the Mandrivia option. The cost would be reduced due to the volume licence agreement anyway, and that also includes free technical support to MS.
Whilst Linux is a great platform, it’s still nowhere near Vista or XP level yet. Whilst Linux is free or very cheap this is OK – but if you compare Vista against Linux and remove the cost out of the equasion then the worlds most popular OS is probably going to win it.
That’s just business, we’ve had the same thing happen to us (our company is a web development company. Got Phase 1 done, but support went as they got their system redone by a competitor before we even finished development) Get over it, stop whining like children and start working as a commerical entity rather than hobbyists.
François,
What are you whining about. You have sold your PC you already have your money. If the Nigerians would say, we don’t want to pay for the software because we install Microsoft Windows i could understand your complaining. But you have deliverd your goods, and got payed. What is your problem, if the Nigerians want to convert the machines to a Sony Playstation, that is not you problem, it is their right because they have bought and payed for the goods. I can’t understand all those whining of Linux community against Microsoft, I use Linux myself and the company uses Windows. Linux is not heaven and Microsoft is not Hell. If you look at companies as Suse/Novell and Red Hat, it is no open source anymore (they are copieing the Microsoft marketing strategie).
François, stop whining and use a better sales team
What else to expect of American monopolist company (run by bald monkey and convict)?
But, this prove one thing: GNU/Linux (generally speaking) is coming to desktops!!! Keep up the fight!!!!
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