[Gllug] Windows 7

[Benjamin Goodacre]

I think that one of the problems is that decision makers don't 'care' about the subject like we do. Even if they could be persuaded that Linux is better etc etc they do not want to bother learning anything which does not behave exactly like Outlook/Windows. Even if TCO of Windows can be proved to be > Linux they simply don't care as they dont want to have to spend time out of their day learning a new OS. There is a 'not in my back yard' reasoning where change of IT is fine so long as it does not affect their desktop. It was easy for me to persuade DMs that moving to Apache was a good idea but a move away from Windows for desktops? No chance.

Benjamin 


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From: gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk [mailto:gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk] On Behalf Of JLMS
Sent: 19 November 2009 16:00
To: cehunter at gb-x.org; Greater London Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Windows 7

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Christopher Hunter <cehunter at gb-x.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 09:37 +0000, John Winters wrote:
>
>> XP certainly still has its faults, but they are manageable,
>
> Actually, in a real, business sense, they aren't.  You can't expect
> users to maintain their own systems, so you end up with the "corporate
> imaging" option which produces a huge workload for the IT maintenance
> team.  The trojan, virus and other Windows stupidities that hinder
> productivity also have all to be factored in to the "TCO", which (no
> matter how many bogus statistics MS try to show) IS always several times
> higher with Windows (of any flavour) than with anything else.
>
> I had this argument just last week with a very senior manager in a huge
> government department.  His entire reasoning (apart from the fact that
> his boss told him to) was that Linux admins "cost more" than Windows
> admins.  I pointed out that even this was bogus in that they would need
> about ten Linux admins for the organisation, where at present they
> employ 97 Windows "admins"!
>

How can one get this evidence out there?

I have seen this time and time again, but somehow this little very
relevant factoid is not reaching as many lay ears as it should...
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