You're being overly dramatic.
Certainly, Linux/Solaris isn't a drop-in replacement. That said, there
are a great number of places where it _is_ a viable solution. It all
depends on a very thorough examination of exactly what the organization
is doing, how it is doing it, and what it really is trying to
accomplish. Transitions need to be well-research, and the costs (both
up-front, reoccurring, and in-place) cataloged ahead of time.
-Erik
Neil Houston wrote:
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Ron Halstead <[email protected]> wrote:
How does this relate to opensolaris at all?
If Outlook/Entourage or office applications are a
requirement for your organization, then your only
choices are Windows and Mac OSX. No linux or
solaris. Although you can use some products that try
to duplicate the functionality of Outlook / Office,
they're not the same, and you will encounter some
"differences" which may be called "problems" in some
cases.
I disagree with the above. With the availability of OpenOffice, Firefox and
Thunderbird, there is no need for Windows, and its a lot less expensive. True,
there might be a learning curve, and the old fogies might gripe about the
change (I'm 63 and didn't gripe a bit) but the apps work great and fill the
bill. Personally, I would stay with Solaris or OpenSolaris but the advice about
a consultant should be closely considered.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but OpenOffice is simply nowhere near
Microsoft Office. To you, perhaps, but try selling it to your Admin
staff who sit in Excel all day. It doesn't even come close.
Linux isn't actually much cheaper than MS for desktop users in an
Enterprise until quite some time after the deployment. Your initial
savings on CALs will be overshadowed by the amount you're paying to
retrain your staff, your users, and to get the vendor on-site to fix
the problems you are invariably and definitely going to meet.
You then have the problems about the random, legacy, bespoke
applications that you may not even know are running on your network
that X number of users can't live without, wine doesn't cut it here.
After that, you have problems as you no longer have SCCM or Group
Policy, next that your users can't interact *PROPERLY* (a mozilla
plugin doesn't cut it here, either) with the shiny expensive new
exchange servers that were put in, and chances are your intranet was
written for IE (not cheap to fix) ... the dungeon starts to collapse.
To Surmise, anyone considering installing OpenSolaris for their users,
in a real enterprise environment that isn't a software house, lab, or
so on, should really consider a new line of work.
If you're *forced* to do such a transition, do it with a linux and get
the vendor on board early on to work out your migration plan and pilot
the thing to death. Even then, it's going to take you a very long time
to get it running properly, and you're going to get fired long before
that time...
Not even Linux is ready for this kind of use, let alone Solaris.
--ron
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