Dear Joe,
The State of Vermont appears to also considering an all Micro$oft
environment. Maybe Taxpayers would prefer locally supported and sourced
systems?
Regards,
Flint
On Thu, 13 Jun 2013, Shawn Carroll wrote:
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:40:45 -0400
From: Shawn Carroll <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: MS vs Linux in the Quee(n/r) City
PCC.
On Jun 13, 2013, at 10:30 PM, joe golden <[email protected]> wrote:
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
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
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