[Gllug] The total cost of ownership to Ealing Council

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Alain Williams wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 08:32:58PM +0100, Caroline Ford wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm not sure how to respond to this thread as I don't think some of
>> you know how offices work. The costs of moving to linux are
>> considerably more than the costs of conflickr. You'd have to train the
>> entire workforce as they come pre-trained in windows. You'd have to
>> rewrite all your documents that require features of MS Office.
>>     
>
> +1
> You start with one application (firefox), then another (perhaps thunderbird),
> and gradually move on. At some point for many users the desktop OS becomes
> irrelevant because they are running nothing but free s/ware, so when their
> hardware comes up for renewal you give them a Linux box.
>
>   
Yeah, that's how I made the switch. For years there were free
equivalents to many of the apps I used but I only summoned up the
courage to jump when I looked at my desktop and realised I could run all
THE SAME apps on Linux. I think that's only really come about in the
last few years.

Roger.
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