Wow...  what a great opportunity...  I would jump at the chance to help
them migrate to Linux.  Can you hook us up with a meeting date/time with
some of their IT staff so we can evaluate their current situation?  I'd
definitely attend the meeting and I'm sure that several other people on
this list would be interested as well.
~M



On Sun, 26 May 2002, 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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