[Gllug] The total cost of ownership to Ealing Council

[Alain Williams]

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.

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