All,
it has come to my attention that the city of Burlington is questioning
the value of non MS based systems and contemplating an all MS shop for
the city infrastructure and their webservers. There may be security or
legal reasons that they want to host sites themselves.
Are there local organizations with a solid *nix infrastructure that the
city of Burlington can relate to that we can point to as Open Source
successes on the technological and financial fronts? As a Burlington
taxpayer, I appreciate that the city is trying to save $ and I suspect
this idea is coming in under the "cost savings" umbrella.
In this analysis the licensing costs are only one consideration of many.
Other considerations might be
* availability of sys admins
* cost of sys administration in time and $
* skill set of current IT employees
* system robustness, security and throughput
* long term support
* hardware costs and availability
I know CCTV (Chittenden Community Television) is a Linux shop that
handles a lot of traffic and has a lot going on with it's tech dept.
Where are some other *nix success stories on a scale and budget of the
City of Burlington?
Thanx all.
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Joe Golden /_\ www.Triangul.us /_\ Coding, Drupalism and Open Sourcery
