whitepaper request

[George Toft]

Found it!!!

http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.pdf

The main page is pretty good, too.

George


technomage wrote:
> 
> this is something that a senior cox engineer brought to my attention.
> we need to commission or present a white paper on the viability of linux
> within the cox.net system.
> 
> Reason is this: they are running some windows servers and the techs are
> starting to look at alternatives.
> if we can convert cox.net to 100% linux (or as close to that as possible), it
> will free up some time spent troubleshooting server problems and let the
> techs actually work on real problems for a change.
> 
> We would need to have a focus for the paper (as seen from a suit's point of
> view: "how much is this going to cost?" and also from the technician pov:
> "how easy is it to setup?").
> 
> Personally, I feel we need as much data as possible to support a premise for
> getting cox.net switched over. I've already run across a few UNIX heads in
> the tech support staff and 1 or 2 linux users that run at home. if management
> and the stockholders can be convinced, well.....
> 
> just a few thoughts.
> 
> Technomage
> 
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