re: The death knell sounds again for Internet Exploder 6
Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
Steve wrote:
|I think XP is the best value for a Operating System right now.
The City of Munich has committed itself to an all-Free Software ecosystem.
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of http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/09/5284.ars
They are on budget and on schedule
(~10% of 14,000 desktops for the OS; even better for OpenOffice deployment).
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of http://www.go-portal.org/index.php/component/awiki/?view=mediawiki%26article=LiMux
In the short run, they don't disagree with you.
They don't appear to be in a huge rush to git 'er done
(I figure in large part due to reticence on the part of users)
and the city has until their XP licenses EoL (in what? 2010?).
...and a 100% deployment of an image *could* be made overnight, if desired.
As a counter to your position, MANY are finding that it's hard to oppose FREE.
Burlington Coat Factory has been M$-free since 1999.
http://google.com/search?q=Linux+1999+1250+"Burlington.Coat.Factory"
Ernie Ball, Inc. had to learn the hard way about the REAL costs of payware.
Apparently, they didn't have a full-time guy keeping track of software licences
and the Business Software Alliance raided the joint.
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of http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-6488047_ITM
After pissing away $100,000 to get past that,
Ernie Ball, Inc. hasn't used proprietary software since the Summer of 2000.
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of http://www.getopenoffice.org/ernieball.html
Sterling Ball has even remarked that he didn't buy a support contract from RedHat.
The City of Largo, Florida has been payware-free all of this century as well
and while Munich says it will initially cost them MORE to use Linux[1],
Largo says they cut their costs to half of what it had been.
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of http://linux.com/archive/feature/119109?theme=print
For an individual, payware may still make sense
but more and more corps are realizing just how poorly it scales
--and it can be demonstrated that it's been true for all of this century.
[1] My first link in this post talks about how Ballmer crapped his pants
and told Munich he'd give them fire-sale prices on everything.
The way to get better prices on M$ is to show M$ you don't need them.
Several places have used this as a bargaining chip;
it works REALLY well when you already have a demo Linux network deployed.
In Munich's case, it helps that there are lots of watchdogs
making sure the city fathers don't indulge in graft as has happened many places.
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