On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 06:31:18PM +0800, Peter Santiago wrote: > I still don't think we're able to handle some big-time outsourcing of > Linux jobs. I doubt DTI would have data regarding this. You can > probably ask Q-Linux though. >
This is what our company is doing at the moment. It isn't easy, especially as we're understaffed and are having trouble hiring new people... > 4. On the corporate side, moving to opensource is considered risky. In > short, there is no one vendor to pin the blame on if anything goes > wrong. ^_^ Right, but for the wrong reasons. It is not so much that there is no one vendor to blame. I have been personally involved in several large enterprise GNU/Linux deployments and the support issues are handled by taking a well-known enterprise distribution like Red Hat or SuSE, enterprise hardware certified for these distributions and the applications required, and hiring a team of engineers to do maintenance and other support issues (that's our company). It seems to work well enough, and I believe this is how such things are handled elsewhere as well. The bigger issue has to do with migration, training, and so forth. Some companies already use some form of proprietary Unix like Solaris or AIX, and from there it is only a short step to administering GNU/Linux. This was the case, without exception, for all of the companies where we have deployed enterprise GNU/Linux systems. For such companies GNU/Linux is not such a ridiculously hard sell. As far as they're concerned, it's just another Unix flavor that comes with a much lower price tag. However, I imagine there are many more companies out there that have never seen or used any form of Unix whatsoever, and the cost of having to train their people to administer and manage a totally alien OS and to migrate existing applications to the same alien OS is a daunting prospect. -- Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots. http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
