Hmm... you are correct, but at what point does diminishing returns kick in? TCO is a nebulous gremlin to pin down, but certainly the security failures exposed in the Microsoft OS over the past few months must be making those decision makers question that investment.
Dustin, as a Microsoft/Linux integration guru, do you see a business opportunity to address Microsoft OS weaknesses with Linux where appropriate? I think the fact that as it mostly desktops that are getting hit with worms/viruses, etc., that maybe efforts like Xandros/Wine, etc., could be a good alternative with a lower migration cost. What would be needed is a process to quickly evaluate what PCs in an organization are ideal for migrating to something Xandros (http://www.xandros.com) where users are in a somewhat familiar environment. Couldn't the Microsoft OS migration configuration factors be automatically extracted and used to create a kickstart script of some kind? Stuff like drive mappings, Desktop and Profile settings, etc? Dang, was that regular coffee instead of decaf I drank this morning? John Hebert -----Original Message----- From: Dustin Puryear To: [email protected] Sent: 9/25/03 9:56 AM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Let's bash M$ again! At 06:12 AM 9/25/2003 -0500, you wrote: >However, after reading the article, I would like to state that government >regulation of Microsoft is not the answer. The answer is for affected >companies to migrate away from Microsoft towards other operating systems >that address the faults of Microsoft in the first place. > >I would like to know: What keeps companies using Microsoft? What is the >overriding factor in the decision to purchase Microsoft as opposed to >other operating systems? For one, companies already have a large investment in Microsoft and related technologies. --- Dustin Puryear Puryear Information Technology, LLC http://www.puryear-it.com Providing expertise in the management, integration, and security of Windows and UNIX systems, networks, and applications. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
