Hi, On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, David McNally wrote:
> Please let me know what you think. Being realistic for a moment, I think you need to consider what the huge changes you propose that all your technicians and users would have to make, what the real benefit would be to those users and what problems it might cause. In other words a realistic cost:benefit analysis. You dislike Microsoft Office. One person's preference is a dubious reason for an entire network to change, but the targetted solution would be to propose replacing Microsoft Office with something like OpenOffice v3 (for OS X). You're apparently worried about virus issues. There are few, if any, virus problems at all on OS X to date so moving to linux is unlikely to help here. My advice is only to suggest replacing an operating system (a massively expensive task across a network) where you can document real, compelling benefits which that change will bring and where those benefits outweigh the potential downsides. Otherwise, you probably won't convince them of anything and if you do, you may be in for a horrible shock when your wish comes true. There are often compelling reasons (license costs, hardware costs, maintainability, flexibility, ...), but you haven't listed any that I can see as yet. I use linux and help support it in a school, but one should not recommend changing a school's working system without a substantial amount of careful thought and certainty that it will work out well. If it doesn't, you'll be responsible. Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
