On Sep 20, 2006, at 12:08PM, Holden Hao wrote:
The only time change was accepted was when the managers had the
political will to implement changes and the users were not given any
say in the matter. Then they took the time to learn and now they are
reaping the benefits. "Sanayan lang pala." is now their mantra.
I have seen the same case in my own organization. When we hired
new people we simply told them that we use FOSS and showed them the
system. There were no trainings apart from a brief introduction on
how to log-in and out, what software to use (OO.org), and where
files are located, etc. The introduction did not even take an hour
but the personnel easily became productive with the unfamiliar system.
My case is somehow similar. In 2003, I was hired to migrate about 60
workstations in two locations from Windows to Linux+LTSP. Since I was
the only one who knows Linux in the organization during that time
(now there are 3 full-time Linux administrators), it was basically a
one-man show and training cannot be done except for how to login and
out and where the office apps are because I was tied up fine tuning
the system.
There was so much resistance at first. But when the owner of the
company said that there's no other option for them but to adapt, the
resistance stopped.
Until now the system is still in use. It has grown to 4 terminal
servers now (to my last count since I don't maintain the system
anymore) in the main branch and how many diskless workstations I
don't know anymore (the other branch closed down).
After 3 years, when one of the users needed to be migrated back to
Windows (she was assigned a laptop with Windows) she resisted the
same way she did 3 years ago.
:)
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