Well, in a company with 20.000 employees I can imagine that the License fees for Windows Servers (there probably are a lot of them) and MSSQL databases (There probably are a lot of them too) are pretty high. So my main argument would be the financial savings in licensing costs (running costs) that are by far greater then the cost to actually change the IT-infrastructure (single investment) after X months (subject to calculation). Those managers do not understand things like "faster development processes" but they understand things like "We will save a big pile of cash".
Kind regards Thomas Am Dienstag, den 27.09.2011, 07:52 -0700 schrieb Yves S. Garret: > Also, what was your experience in a similar situation? How did you > handle it? We're a big organization with at least 20,000 people. > > On Sep 27, 10:40 am, "Yves S. Garret" <yoursurrogate...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Sorry about this not being CakePHP specific, but rather something being > > tangentially related to CakePHP. However, in my organization, there is a > > serious issue with convincing management that Open Source is a good idea. > > As a result we are stuck with using Windows servers and _forced_ to use > > MSSQL. > > > > Don't get me wrong, I don't hate Microsoft (I run Mac, Windows and Linux at > > home) or want to start a flamewar of some sort. However, I would like to > > know of some BUSINESS REASONS that I can use to sell to management that this > > is not only a good idea, but head and shoulders above our present way of > > going. > > > > My reason for doing this is because it's so much easier to get updates, > > fixes and improvements than with a close source approach. Management is > > worried about support. I don't really care, I can admin my own box just > > fine. They want an approach that will cover their rear ends in case > > something bad happens (i.e. someone will come on-site and fix it for them). > > Is there consultant group that provides support and other such services in > > the Rhode Island area that we could tap into? I'd keep Windows around, but > > since we do most of our development on the web, it's kind of pointless to > > care too much what OS you're running. > -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
