Am 20. Jan, 2004 schw=E4tzte Joe Toon so:

> I'm glad to see your "out in the wild" report :)
>
> a few thoughts of mine..
>
> nationwide vision
> --------------------------
> Since Nationwide Vision is a local outfit, it might be interesting to

They are? Cool.

> figure out who set them up with Linux and perhaps have PLUG create a
> case study --- reasons, cost, retraining, stability, manageability, etc..

We should do an article with this info for the web site. Did they roll it
out or did a vendor do everything for them? If they rolled it out and are
supporting it we should get someone to come do a presentation for us.

Anybody have any contacts over there?

> businesses & Linux
> ---------------------------------
> People could case less about operating systems. the fact that not a lot
> of "suits" showed up is not terribly surprising. For many people, that
> probably sounds about as fascinating as having a tooth extracted or
> attending a meeting on new GAAP accounting regulations or similar.

> 2) Determine how using Linux can reduce the budget (or allow the budget
> to go toward other things) -- use of LTSP, reduction of license costs
> (software, CAL, etc..), reduction of virus/spyware removal costs, etc.

We need presentations that respond to concerns small business owners have.

> I am not necessarily directly this right at you, but more so as
> something that people can think about who want to get more FOSS into the
> workplace. Personally I think getting a Microsoft shop to switch over to
> Linux wholeheartedly is a bit too much of a risk (in their eyes). I have
> been slowly introducing FOSS Windows-based solutions to businesses that
> are cross platform. Mozilla is a great starting point. Slowing pushing
> them toward considering Microsoft as a liability (what if they go
> under?) and as a result, inquiring about cross platform support for
> their business-specific software. When the time comes, switching over to
> Linux will not be a big deal .. they are already use to the apps and its
> simply a matter of a few minor things changing..

Getting them to use Mozilla rather than Outlook is a win for Free Software
*and* a win for stopping down viruses :).

ciao,

der.hans
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