Forum to discuss and answer questions on Enterprise Agreement

[tickticker]

for this, you would need a list of tools that handle linux partition formats
and file systems.  this does narrow the scope of software and the county
might already have (several) licenses that may be reused.

anthony
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Nichols" <gary@linuxforce.org>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: Forum to discuss and answer questions on Enterprise Agreement


> Well said!
>
> I want to bring up a point that has not been addressed to a full extent -
> deployment.  Any entity that has over 100+ desktops is typically using
> some type of rapid deployment tool.  These tools use images that contain
> the OS, software apps, everything pre-configured and ready to rock and
> roll.  Similar to you buying a $PEE-CEE from $MAJOR-VENDOR and turning it
> on for the first time.
>
> We need to ask the county about their hardware environment.  Are all their
> machines the same?  What's the lifespan of a workstation/server in the
> county?
>
> If everyone has the same desktop (like at $MY-EMPLOYER), conversion to
> Linux/BSD would be a snap - you make one image pre-configured and working,
> roll it out department by department and BLAM! Bye-bye Windows.
>
> If the county has a mish-mash of deployed machines, this could add to the
> adoption costs - and add headaches.  We need to provide suggested
> solutions in this case.
>
> Gary
>
>
>
> On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, George Toft wrote:
> >
> > The goal is to teach users how to point and click a slightly different
> > GUI, not how to become admins, or even command line warriors.  The
> > largest labor expense will be in defining a workable desktop environment
> > that is robust enough to provide what the county needs, yet be secure
> > enough to thwart the tinkerers, and power user wannabe's.
>
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