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Re:Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryp... by acdha on Monday July 22, 2019 @01:14PM (#20500098)
“We decided to go with <other vendor> because they have Linux support”

“The sales team says that's a requirement for the companies they're talking to”

“Competitor X has Linux support and they're growing faster with no other obvious explanation”

Re:Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryp... by jeltz on Monday July 22, 2019 @04:44PM (#20502162)
Most customers never contact your sales team in the first place if they see that you do not support their stuff.
Re:Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryp... by acdha on Monday July 22, 2019 @09:13PM (#20503684)
This very much depends on the product but note that is exactly why I listed other possibilities. If Linux support was a big opportunity they’d know — maybe not precisely but enough to know it was hurting them.

I’ve been using Linux for around 25 years, some of that selling commercial software and most buying. There’s a very noisy contingent of the community who make a lot of noise but never actually buy anything. You’ll go broke chasing their feature requests because there’s always one more thing before they can switch.