[Klug-general] answer to my FOI request from Kent County Coucil

[Jo Sharrad]

I think the first problem is a bit of mixed messages.

The FOI was concerning all of KCC, whereas you mention the KCC FOI but
mainly speak of libraries, what would you like us to discuss, small
migration or a large migration. Obviously both have different problems that
arise.

In 2004 I, so so long ago!!, moved a school of 800 students plus 100 staff
over the course of a year from all Windows to all (apart a small minority)
to Linux, server and client, moving to Linux servers as I mentioned before
was easy and the end-user knew no difference, moving to Linux clients was a
completely different matter.  Is this the sort of thing you mean?

Cheers,

Jo

On 14 October 2014 21:31, Jonathan Kaye <jdkaye at riseup.net> wrote:

> Dan Attwood wrote on 14/10/14 17:01:
> > It's about management of those machines as well not just user experience.
> >
> > All the machines in KCC will be windows and they will all be being
> > managed centrally via SCCM and AD.
> >
> > Having of pool of machines that are different would be a pain.
> >
> I'd like to see evidence for this assertion. I'd like to compare it with
> the upheaval of changing from Windows XP to Windows 7.  In point of fact
> all this has been done with not much loss of life as a result. I'd
> really like to hear from admins who have actually gone through the
> change from Windows to Linux as to the level of trauma experiences by
> such a change compared to a Windows "upgrade". If it turns out that
> changing the administrative system is indeed an easier route than so be
> it and lets compare all open source vs. all Windows machines for the
> Kent library system.
> Jonathan
>
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