On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 14:28 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/9/4 Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Omer Zak wrote:
> >>
> >> Are there Israeli companies, which deploy Linux solutions, and for which
> >> it is worthwhile to avoid dual-booting or virtual machines yet support
> >> clients, who still have legacy MS-Windows applications?
> >>
> >
> > Yes and no.
> >
> > No, no such company will pick up the price tag on its own. Yes, if the
> > infrastructure work is done, the remaining part would be economical for
> > companies. It's a case of putting money to, potentially, get some back.
> >
> > Shachar
> >
>
> What order of magnitude are we looking at? It is very hard to state
> "someone needs to come up with X shekels / euros / dollars" without
> knowing whereabout X lies.
See one of my previous E-mail messages.
We are looking at 60K NIS. If we can round up a group of companies with
total of 600 potential Wine users, then this should be doable - with
100NIS/head, the companies would save costs of dual-booting, VM
deployments and licenses on extra copies of MS-Windows XP that they'd
otherwise need.
--- Omer
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