Burns Macdonald wrote: > > Everyone is right. > > The Government in the US and Canada are "tinkering" with Linux, but there > are few if any large scale enterprise-class projects underway. Microsoft, > Sun and to a lesser degree, HP, are firmly entrenched in the culture. There > are a few of typical reactions/misconceptions which explain this: > > 1) If it doesn't cost a lot, it can't be any good. Part of the "the more > they charge for it, the better it must be" syndrome; > > 2) Open Source is "hobbyware"; > > 3) If it's Open Source, there is no one company that stands behind... so who > do I blame/sue if something goes wrong; and
To that, we simply need to have people read a MS "EULA" or whatever they call it, they only stand behind their product until something really goes wrong...come time to blame/sue someone, they absolve themselves of responsibility. "We guarantee it...unless something breaks". > 4) I am not an expert in IT, I am an expert in Microsoft. That's how I got > to be a senior IT manager, by rolling out and maintaining Microsoft > products. Deploying Linux now means that I am introducing something that I > know nothing about... I will no longer be an expert - plus senior management > may begin to think that all my previous (Microsoft) accomplishments were, in > the end, bad decisions on my part. I am now the black sheep in the corporation for reasons much like this. After implementing Linux/Samba server for about $2000 of OS and hardware, where corporate standards would have called for about $3500-4000 worth of server and another few thousand worth of W2K and client licenses...I've earned a bad reputation with the MS Managers...er IT Managers. Some high-ups are now asking questions the MS drones can't answer..."Why is what we've always used so much more?" Although, happily, my manager and the 20 guys using the server are happy as pigs in mud. -- Linux SxS [http://sxs.webhop.net] _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
