Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
I haven't touched upon the hardware part. All I would like to know is
actual case reports about small offices that were doing their work
earlier in doze and later migrated everything to GNU/Linux.
Rony, you may be pleasantly suprised to know that the West Bengal
University of Technology (http://www.wbut.ac.in/) uses Free Software
(specifically GNU/Linux) exclusively on their computers. This goes to
the extent that the Vice-Chancellor had (atleast the last time I met
him a few weeks back) only GNU/Linux on his laptop, and no proprietary
operating system is allowed to use the university network.
Very good! :) For institutions and corporate customers, migration is a
policy decision as they can afford services of software programmers and
can even get custom software written for them. Colleges have the added
advantage of their own programming faculty and students. But small
offices cannot do that and rely on readily available software, therefore
the need for GNU alternatives to professional windows based software.
To know more just drop in the ILUG-Cal.org mailing list
(http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss) and place
a query. Some of the ILUG-Cal.org members have been instrumental in
this effort, and they will be happy enough to let you in on their
secrets. :-)
Why don't they post a full migration report on the net, detailing all
software used before and after along with the data formats and migration
process of data.
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