> My question for you Mark, is why would anyone think of paying money for > older software that won't be supported after the end of the year (and is > questionably supported now) as opposed to getting newer, and in a lot of > cases better quality, community supported software for only the cost of > training or hiring someone to manage the system? > > Joseph
just as a follow-up to joseph's excellent post, i offer consulting, installation, training, and maintenance services for organizations that use or are considering linux. if you'd like more concrete information or an analysis specific to your organization, please let me know. i love helping people convert to open source software! jason -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
