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Tim Churches wrote: | | So for large oragnisations, the necessary support infrastructure to swap | mission critical operations to Linux and other FOSS solutions is already | there, I feel, or just about there. People just don't realise it. | I think a lot of people do realize it inside the established IT operations. There are some systems vendors doing a better job then others with linux, but that is changing as well.
~ I think it's people in the small to medium category that don't realize the range of support available. Typically what will happen in this market is when their application VAR (Value added reseller, i.e. the company that makes your billing software or your EHR package) makes the move to linux, they will. I saw this happen when the mini-computer VAR market of the 70's and 80's switched nearly wholesale to Microsoft LAN's and servers by the 90's. It's starting to trickle over to Linux, made easier by running on the same hardware!
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