Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > It sounds like they're a small business. They probably don't have a > full time sysadmin and they probably shouldn't but you can guarantee > they'll need someone there full time to hold their hands for the first > several months if not years.
Good point. Steve, assuming you want to help them make the transition, you need a contract, and you should expect to be paid well. Negotiating a contract will help them cool down and think about making IT changes in terms of monetary benefits or losses. Sometimes change itself costs a lot of money. I know that sounds like a Microsoft ad, but the truth is it's a lot easier and cheaper to start a company with Linux than to convert a company from Windows to Linux. > They also need to find out how well their windows apps run under wine > before spending even a dime on a transition as that could be a > deal-breaker. Personally, I wouldn't try Wine. The Wine project is a great effort, but it's far from complete. Windows inside VirtualBox is much nicer. Shane /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
