On 9/20/06, Carlos Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In the past few years, it has been relatively easy for our I.T. department to migrate our servers and enterprise applications to Linux. However, our attempt to migrate desktop users to Open Office (OO) in Windows (not even Linux yet) failed miserably! The reason for that is simple: training, supporting and managing the change to OO requires too much manpower and resources. This is something we wouldn't do internally, since our time would be better spent enhancing and supporting our core systems and applications. Of course, we do realize that migrating our users to OO would generate some savings in software licensing (about 350 to 700K PHP each year). So, if there are any OO migration specialists out there who might be interested in helping us, please contact me offlline. My email address is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks.
It is best to let new employees use the open source stuff and gradually extend it to the existing employees. As time passes, If you have enought people using FOSS, you set up an informal help center in the office, which is how most tech problems are solved anyway. It kind of like "Pare, paano gawin sa OpenOffice yung ganito?" "Ah, ganyan lang yan!" "Dali lang pala, TY ha?" Also you can channel the savings in licenses on the first year for support and trainning. Your actual savings start on year two, when more people become more adept at FOSS. The good news is you are actually going to need trainning only once, then it lasts a lifetime na. In the our company only one out of four divisions went back against the migration. Two have fully migrated and one is actually begging me to migrate them na (I'm biding my time--"change management" and all). I guess they see the benefits from the other two divisions. Contact me via email if you need more tips. Maybe I can schedule something with your company. And in the spirit of FOSS, no charge for the initial meeting (well, maybe coffee - hehehe). -- Regards, Danny Ching _________________________________________________ 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
