On Tuesday 16 May 2017 at 10:40 Jim Birch wrote: >> it's difficult to see why any organisation would prefer Windows. > > 1. Existing applications and infrastructure > 2. Existing staff skills and available skills in new recruitments > 3. System component interoperability > > It's difficult to see how a moderate to large organisation that uses Windows > could change. It's a massive undertaking with a lot of costs and risks for > some marginal paybacks. This stranglehold is being eroded a little by > client-server computing models but it is still extremely powerful.
Linux certainly isn't a drop-in replacement for Windows, but even successive versions of Windows can create problems. And the way to introduce that sort of change in a big organisation is on a manageable department-by-department basis. As for staff skills, I suspect most staff only have generic "computer skills" anyway; they're not highly trained in Windows. They would easily find their way around a familiar Windows-like GUI such as KDE and packages like LibreOffice, and many (most?) applications these days employ a browser user interface. David L. _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
