County Meeting

One comment - as those of you who were there will recall, Paul Allsing
followed me out the door - I had a plane to catch and he had a meeting
to cancel. In the hallway, he let me know Linux is coming into the
county, and showed me the Linux Guru in charge of the project (he
happened to be walking past us at that point).

Linux will be used, just not on the desktop.

George


Robert Bushman wrote:
>
> The Bad News:
>
> As we suspected, Maricopa has no legal obligation
> to debar Microsoft - it's an option.
>
> Maricopa believes that if they did debar Microsoft,
> Microsoft would fight it.
>
> Maricopa perceives no significant pain in its
> relationship with Microsoft, and sees the price as
> reasonable.
>
> Maricopa perceives significant benefit in its
> relationship with Microsoft.
>
> Maricopa perceives neither motivation nor
> obligation to debar Microsoft, and will not do so.
>
> Maricopa equates market share with trustworthiness.
> Hence, Linux will not be on any Maricopa desktops
> in the forseeable future.
>
> Maricopa is investing in .NET, and made no mention
> of developing new systems on alternative platforms.
>
> Maricopa has sampled StarOffice, and will keep MS
> Office as the standard for the forseeable future.
>
> And finally, a little humour: Maricopa is dedicated
> to giving its employees the same OS at the office
> as they use at home, and Windows proficiency is a
> prerequisite for employment. Not kidding, these
> two statements were made sequentially. "You can
> have any color you want, as long as you want
> black." - Henry Ford
>
> The Good News:
>
> Maricopa is considering some trial Linux print
> and fax servers - no target date.
>
> Maricopa has a few non-Microsoft desktops
> (Macintoshes), and many non-Microsoft servers.
>
> Maricopa legacy systems currently run J2EE
> (WebSphere on HP/UX). There is not currently any
> plan to migrate legacy systems to .NET.
>
> Maricopa targets platform independance regarding
> their website and public documents.
>
> Maricopa was very cordial, and suggested that we
> do this again sometime.
>
> My humble opinion:
>
> Maricopa has no serious intent to do anything to
> alter its dependant relationship with Microsoft,
> and is not interested in trialing Linux. We are
> barking up the wrong tree.
>
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