Ray, Thanks for the info. I actually work for Northrop Grumman (http://www.northropgrumman.com), and DSS has outsourced some of their computing services to us.
The presentation I will be working on is for the CIO, CTO and Corporate corporate lead architect for Northrop Grumman. As for DSS, we are already looking into moving as many Netware servers to OES on the mainframe We have a lot of Linux activity within DSS. Much more to come over the next year as well. Thanks, Ryan >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/11/05 4:39 pm >>> On Wed, 11 May 2005, Ryan McCain wrote: >I am giving a presentation in a few weeks to some very big wigs w/in my >company as to why we should offer open source solutions on proposals and >also implement open source solutions where it makes sense internally. >rather than me re-inventing the wheel, does anyone know of any good >presentations (or any info) directed towards the executive level >audience? Ryan, I recently gave a presentation to some MIS majors on Network Security. On the topic of security costs, i talked a bit about open source and included a spreadsheet of the money we've saved using open source for various projects. The numbers are very rough guesstimates... but i believe we included cost of paid support/maintenance/training over 3-5 years in our guesses. The last 2 slides are of interest, but the rest may interest you also. It's openoffice format, here: http://www.r-a-y.org/work/ As a state agency that is having much success with OSS, I'd like to see the state get out of Microsoft mentality and start using OSS as much as possible. If I can do anything to assist with your presentation (I assume you work for DSS, or a contractor?), shoot me an email or give me a call at 985-549-3643. ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
