Hi Obet! On 1/18/07, Roberto Verzola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm informally helping an office convert to FOSS, and after months of on-off effort, its system administrator submitted a memo about "shifting back to windows", citing the ff reasons:
[snipped common Linux complaints]
I really have another job so I can't give too much time providing detailed support. I expected the sys ad to work out the problems himself, if I point him to the right direction. Apparently, he thinks Windows will be easier for him overall.
To tell you the truth, I think anytime I can keep someone off my system administrator's back is a good thing. If the users still want to use Windows, then there isn't really something we can do about it. And if the administrator thinks Windows will be easier for him overall, we can't do anything about that. It's noble that you do all that you can to promote Linux and Free/Open Source Software, but unfortunately you can't win them all -- it's better that you focus on how you use FOSS and let people see how they can use FOSS at their own pace.
Any suggestion will be helpful. If I can show that half or 2/3 of the problems he raised could have been solved had he tried harder, management might indeed ask the sys ad to try harder.
I don't want to burst your bubble, but "making the sys ad try harder" wouldn't be the best solution if they will be more productive paying for Windows and the office applications they want to use. It's really a business decision, and if management sees that instead of the people being productive on Windows and non-FOSS solutions they spend more time not being productive on Linux+FOSS, they they have to decide either way: stick to Linux+FOSS where it's just taking them too much effort to keep it together or pay up for the software that will make them more productive. At any rate, if the system administrator is not in any way familiar with Linux or the intricacies of actually getting things to work with Linux, then you might have to accept that it's a case of PEBKAC -- and maybe replace the administrator? :D -- Dean Michael C. Berris http://cplusplus-soup.blogspot.com/ mikhailberis AT gmail DOT com +63 928 7291459 _________________________________________________ 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
