Will, Thanks a ton for the feedback. I am looking over your suggestions now.
As for how we can apply this to our business. I have yet to add that, but that will be in my closing slides. You may have noticed the "Where do you want to go tommorow" in the Overview. Thats where I'm going to mention what we can do now w/ OSS. BTW, an updated version of the presentation is here. Any feedback is welcome, as usual. http://www.jordanmayer.net/oss/OpenSource_NG.ppt Thanks again, Ryan -------------------------------------- Ryan McCain Northrop Grumman Corporation Linux System Administrator 3 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 225.219.0556 Fax: 225.219.0540 Registered Linux User #364609 >>> Will Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/23/05 5:41 AM >>> Much nicer and very well developed. I love the TCO stuff. As feeback, I've attached a few modified slides and have a few suggestions. Some of my modifications to your slides are in notes. There's about 7 modified slides. I hope they are useful. I like and use notes for presentations. I put the things I want to say in the notes and only key points on the slide itself. The notes serve as a cheat sheet, so that you say everything you need to and are a handy place to note audience reaction and sharp questions. It takes extra effort to turn binder pages and push buttons but I end up doing better this way. Steer away from FUD, such as Open Source Myths and Risks. These get plenty of press right now and are best combatted by pointing to the advantages of free software again and again. You might want to start a collection of answers to specific FUDs and have the slides ready to go, but that's a never ending task. There's an infinite number of untrue things that can be said about free software, so the dumb questions will always change. One thing that's missing are direct applications for your client. I understand that you might want to keep that information under your hat, but I hope you have it. For application you probably want cost and feature comparison slides.
