david wrote:
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 17:30 +1000, David Ward wrote:
Hi all,
The Owner of the company has gave Linux thought and some how was tipped
over the edge recently and called a meeting with a few key staff members
hers and ..... me.
<snip>
If you can convert time/effort for virus protection into dollars, that
might help. Lots of windows users are convinced that the reason all the
virus's affect Windows is because of the 95% factor. Last figures I read
were - 64000 Windows viruses, 40 Mac viruses, 20 Linux viruses. I have
no idea if it's right, but it sounds good and it blows apart the 95%
factor ;-) You could try spelling out all the well publicised virii
that you were able to happily not worry about.
<snip>
Viruses were certainly the driver for my own switch to Linux and you
could do the simple sums of
cost of virus software
downtime to do whatever it is you do to prevent them
effectiveness of this approach/projected cost/opportunity cost over the
next 5 years :-)
You might also have to talk about Open source and in my view, Apache is
the pinup of Open Source and the Web.
April 2007 Web Server Survey
In the April 2007 survey we received responses from 113,658,468 sites, an
increase of 3.2 million sites from last month's survey. Apache continues to be
the most widely-used web server, powering more than 66.9 million sites,
compared to 35.3 million sites using Microsoft server software.
<http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html>
PC based Applications are real practical issue. But the reality is that
most people use browsing/email/WP/Spreadsheets/Presentation software.
Most people in large organisations have little understanding of networks
or even operating systems so, I agree with the posting about showing
them Google.
Ofcourse Browser interfaced applications are a non issue.
And don't forget there are different audiences - the Mac lovers who have
fought
of the PC people for years, the accountants and bean counters, the
innovators who are frustrated with the IT departmentand ofcourse
existing license/support/maintenance agreements ....some are alies some
are foes. Depends how well they are serving the organisation at present.
The project would have to consider document/email conversion and
ofcourse the actual upgrade process. Not sure where people stand on dual
operation, but I think people have to go cold turkey and feel the pain
for a little while.
There are ofcourse different flavours of Linux and the issue of support
would also come up. Are there any figures on installed base of each?
Marghanita
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