On 9/20/06, Holden Hao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Upper management wanted to do away with payment of licenses so they > asked me to introduce FOSS. Cost savings were around 20,000 pesos per > machine. We had around 10 or so machines so that translated to about > 200,000. Since these machines were supposed to be running win98, which > isn't available anymore from MS, we did not need to upgrade any > hardware except for RAM. That's more savings. Management was pretty > happy. This was probably during the raid scare. This always catches the attention of management. It would be good though if the solution is presented to the organization and have the majority of the organization approve the move. One organization that we recently assisted did this and it helped ease resistance. > >Was training part of the migration or was it an implement and "hope > they use it" approach? > > We trainned the people who needed to use it. Both for OO and Linux. Training is really an important part of any migration. We were lucky to have been able to migrate some clients without training but now I believe it should be a mandatory part of any migration project.
i think building systems that don't require training is the best solution. its possible with hotplug and all. its only the UI thats the problem. if only the desktop guys stop cloning apple and windows. i really believe that the windows and apple developers are already out of touch with what the people in the street really need. and its the sector that linux should be targeting. what works for these guys will work for everybody. -- the thing i like with my linux pc is that i can sum up my complaints in 5 items _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
