Paul,
taxpayers are agnostic, but probably biased towards MS because it's a
known big entity and therefore has some trust level. *nix is something
few have heard of, though more are familiar with it than a decade ago.
Taxpayers would prefer something that gets the job done well and cheaply
I think.
I think the onus is on us to make the case with real VT businesses and
bottom lines that *nix is the best. This case needs to be made in the
State of VT context with the entrenched culture and personnel if it is
to be successful. I believe Linux has been losing out at the state
level, Open Source Policy Announcements notwithstanding.
(http://triangul.us/vermont-open-source-software-and-open-standards-policy-and-guidelines)
I'm not sure the other Linux success stories that have been pointed out
globally are going to have much sway. If your in house dudes know MS, it
may be cheaper in the long run. If you're running a better system, but
nobody knows how to restart it or tune parameters, maybe it's neither a
better nor a cheaper system.
--
Joe Golden /_\ www.Triangul.us /_\ websites with class
On 06/14/2013 08:46 AM, Paul Flint wrote:
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.
--
Joe Golden /_\ www.Triangul.us /_\ Coding, Drupalism and Open Sourcery
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
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