Nguyen Vu Hung a ?crit : > Jean Christophe Andr? ????????: > >> Now I'm being lucky because the AUF (my employer) is getting into the FOSS >> move and we are now removing every Windows one by one! We get 450 employees >> all around the world, so it's a pretty hard task... >> > It is easier to say than to do. > Yes! But if you don't try at least to tell "I'll do it!", you'll hardly start for sure... ;-)
> Big companies have more reason not to migrate to open software. Don't be so negative: they *will* do, they just don't know it, yet... ;-) Not sure if you ever saw this one: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments And this page is only about OpenOffice.org ! :-) > AUF is not a company and it does not have customers so there is less pressure > when switching to Linux. > Well, we are an agency, not a company, but we do have "customers": this agency would not live by itself if we were not working in the interest of some other organisms. But it's true we have far less pressure than a company living for customers, because we get our finances mostly from external sources (governments) and not from our "customers". > The real business is like that, it is *very* hard to switch a legacy from old > OSes ( and framework, code ) to a newer one. Noone can make sure it will be > 100% compatible with old system, and running well. The problem is not only > the OS, it is the entire system. > Now, I'm curious to know the real reasons for most companies to not make the step... I can understand this for any company using some dedicated software, but even then there often is solutions to migrate most of the infrastructure and keep only the minimum using proprietary softwares. At AUF, I know of 3 cases (in my area) where we *need* proprietary software and still use them: 1- our global comptability system is running only on a Windows 2000 server ; 2- the IFI (French Institute for Computer Sciences, in Hanoi, where our CNF office stands) needs to allow its students to learn proprietary softwares to get some experience before looking for a job ; 3- the IFMT (French Institute for Tropical Medecine, in Vientiane, Laos) needs to use the Microsoft Windows system and some other proprietary softwares, because some of the Medecine softwares only run on Windows and there is no Free alternative. In all these 3 cases, we have found a very simple solution: put in place one TSE server to let people use these softwares from their Linux desktop! So really, I think there is not that much real reasons to not make the move now... > I've searched for AOE but sadly it is not fully supported. Under wine, AOE is > still buggy in Single Player mode and it seems that I can't play AOE in > Gamepark or Igzones. We can't blame MS for not opening AOE's source code, > right? :P. > Oh... You remind me I did plan to try this one with Wine one day... I hope I still have the CD somewhere... :-P > She is not an IT gal and as unstable as Linux version 1.0 :P > Any tips? > The Linux 0.99pl14, the first one I used, was already pretty stable. :-) And my wife is not an IT gal too, for sure! ;-) Tip: if she doesn't like to hear *you* talking about this (she probably prefers to talk to her husband about "real life's" things ;-)), may be she would be interested in talking with other Linux chix? Try to follow the David hint about getting in contact with the Female FOSS community. Linux is not a Male-only subject. It's for everybody! But, as David said, we may have different reasons to jump into it! :-) -- Jean Christophe "????" ANDR? ? http://asie-pacifique.auf.org/ Responsable technique r?gional Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AuF) ? Bureau Asie-Pacifique (BAP) Adresse postale : AUF, 21 L? Th?nh T?ng, T.T. Ho?n Ki?m, H? N?i, Vi?t Nam T?l. : +84 4 9331108 Fax : +84 4 8247383 Mobile : +84 91 3248747 ? Note personnelle : merci d'?viter de m'envoyer des fichiers PowerPoint ? ? ou Word, voir http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.fr.html ?
