> We need to hire another IT guy here just to help us figure out MS's
> licencing scheme. Good thing for us, most of our back-end servers
> are now Linux. And that's how we infiltrated the corp. We would
> bring up the new servers running Linux/Samba, and *not* pay MS.
> We get kudos all around: users like it because it stays up!
> management likes it because it saves money.
That would be the way to go where I work. I can see a samba server being
the next linux server to come in. Though my boss is a windows man he
seems open to trying linux which is good.
Not sure about the network admin though.....
> As to the desktop, We just started to infultrate this year. mainly
> with QA and with some of our brighter interns. The reason: they
> get the older boxen that are less stable. The boxen are almost
> unusable with MS, but not with Linux.
One reason we are upgrading is that the boxen we have can't hack what
every departmental manager wants to throw at them. While linux would be
great here I still have the original problem. We have too many apps that
would need to ported from Windows. As wonderful as Wine is I don't think
it is the right answer for a corporate environment.
Then again infiltration/subversion is a wonderful tool. If I do get a
shiny new laptop you can bet that it will be a dual boot machine.
> At every turn, we hammer home the fact that Linux saves our Corp
> money...
Well I am hoping the Linux Expo this week will have some good ideas.
Shaun
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