-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Simon Morris wrote: > This is forwarded on from the LUGMasters list. Do we have any list > members in North Wales?
Hi Simon This is very interesting. I think it would be ideal if we could prepare at least a short brief for him. Some thoughts: - - Creating a local distribution is exiciting but perhaps a waste of resources. It might be better to adopt something with Welsh support (like Ubuntu or SuSE) and to build a support-base. - - The key thing with regards large deployment is the overall transition cost in terms of both financial investment and other resources. In ICT there is a massive cost regarding the retraining of both users and technical staff. Perhaps a phased approach to Free Software adoption would minimize the cost while maximizing the benefit (ie, OOo on the desktop and GNU/Linux on the servers to start with). - - License costs, TCO and system stability should be considered carefully as an argument for the adoption of Free Software, as well as avoiding lock-in. IBM has some good information about the first topics though I don't know the best resources for lock-in. Shane - -- Shane Coughlan Free Software Foundation Europe e.V. +3227470357 ext 408 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Support Free Software > http://fsfe.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBRTDTqdGa7CzA5hXyAQLNCgQAhlF+Gg+ibI8Y5KbKLeFZd5dmHwX/mrLp k27d9bESrTBoOJcW5z2nM9YlC1SXzPZDaFMIiodxjfldTblHzJ/YZsk8pOunssQo ZijdwdeGZexZj/JWt7oDp4HiIp4XWW9adAkVd/XNiZB1t5GRq8+TE+QhFf/dMl24 /D2zftAYv8c= =geRn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list Fsfe-uk@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
