On September 22, 2003 02:50 pm, you wrote: > This is an excellent idea. The schools are always talking to Microsoft but, > the schools are always crying about cash. The ROI for them with Linux would > be a huge annual savings even with their educational discounts.
I think a fair argument for this would be how much would it cost them to train their staff to use it? sometimes the cost of training is far greater then the cost of the licenses. They would have to know they would be guaranteed free or low cost consulting until their staff are completely trained and comfortable with the system. Offering help through certain mailing lists etc would not be enough support for them to start at least. I just couldn't imagine they would have the time in the day to be searching the internet on how to fix their system if something breaks. You also have to realize some people don't know how to use search engines efficiently, and they might not even know what they are suppose to be looking for. Putting together some sort of 6 month to 1 year support group for the school may be helpful, at least this way one person wouldn't have to be on call 24/7.. just a thought..
