Next time you run into this situation, just ask them how many times they've gotten
the Klez, Code Red, Nimda (etc.) virus. These buggers are spread only by using
Outlook and IIS.... all M$ technology.
Then ask them how many dollars were spent on prevention and how many dollars
were spent on recovery. Then ask the killer question: How much per seat is M$
costing you....?
Then smile and say, "Linux is free, had you used Linux, you could have saved
yourself a lot of money in license fee's, virus prevention and recovery...and,
you would have worked faster and smarter...".
Its hard to argue with numbers.
When its all said and done, Linux will own the server market by the end of 2005.
The desktop market will slowly come by way of evolution -- Gnome and KDE are
getting better and better...
On a related note, I'm trying to have my town pass an ordinance that would have
them look into open source products for cost saving measures. I'm fighting an
uphill battle, but again, its hard to argue with numbers when you show them that
they just wasted $400,000 on an AS/400 piece of crap to do accounting....
g.
Kenward Vaughan wrote:
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:28:44AM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote:On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Robert L. Harris wrote:Not an option, the CEO is doing the "exchange is the only true calendar app!" thing. I'd rather not come back with a "but linux doesn't work nicely with that proprietary, bloated PoS" as he'd only hear "linux doesn't work"...Then tell your CEO that he is wrong.Ha. This is like my school. Here, IT is wholly MS-oriented. Even some of the CS department is scared of Linux, though apparently someone's been allowed to set up a standalone network. To access the rest of the world they shut down the systems, swap out the HD's, and boot windoze. They refuse to put linux on the same HD, since they are sure some naughty student there will be able to access the windoze partition and ruin it... I nearly laughed at the guy who told me this (CS department). He insisted that he had read about such problems on the Net. This is the same fellow who tells his students that >90% of Web material is trash. I also reminded him of the fact that students are able to modify their c: drives anyway... he went off unfazed. Kenward
