On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 16:49, you wrote: Dear list, Like Ann and Jon, I also have had involvement wirth DoE: Here is a list why OSS is slow to catch on in Australia
These apply to **ALL LARGE ORGANISATIONS** 1. It is not in anyones interest to save money As silly as it sounds, budgets are semi-fixed and there is a need to reduce 'costs' fire people. Trying to explain why you want to reduce you costs is **VERY** hard. People are rewarded with the number of staff reporting to them. 2. OSS can not take people on overseas trips / junkets Image you a 'business manager' with a large organisation who may or may not purchase a multi million dollar system. Commercial organisations will take to to sporting events, dinners and maybe even a trip to US & Europe to see the techology in place. It is even worse for reporters where about 1/2 their advertising is from a single source. You can have an good life by sticking to the group and always talk about the 'mainstream'. There is enough 'colour and movement' to fill your quota of words, usally taking from vendors press releases. Do not try to take over a dept head-on continue to install Linux boxes into schools, TAFEs etc. Schools have technical advisers, in NSW there are about 70 odd (and some are very odd). These are the people you should be targeting not the 'department' regards, -- Richard Hayes Talent Internet http://www.talent.com.au Tel: (02) 9439 8300 Fax: (02) 9439 8327 Mob: 0414 618 425 ABN 94 002 775 215 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
