From: barspi@wam.umd.edu (Barzilai Spinak) Subject: Re: The best way to "support Linux"! Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 00:18:34 GMT
In article <93080.211349K11111I@ALIJKU11.BITNET> <K11111I@ALIJKU11.BITNET> writes:
> rahayden@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (R Andrew Hayden) writes:
>
>>D) Market the hell out of linux. Once 1.0 becomes a reality, Linux
>>should be pushed as much as possible on the net and in the real world as
>>an alternative to DOS/Windows, Windows NT, and OS/2.
>
>Why should somebody switch over. Changing OS costs companies a lot of money
>(installation, training, software adaptation,....).
>
>There are some basic needs a professional used OS should deliver.
>(read k11111I: Re: Linux is not a real OS /Linux Foundation).
>Linux leaks many of them.
>If somebody should switch, Linux must have a real big advantage compared to the
>other OS. And the price is absolutely *not* imprortant.
>
>Most of the costs of a computer in a company are training costs
>(57 percent), then support (12 percent), administration (14 percent) and the
>last thing is hard- and software (=hardware+OS+applications)
>(17 percent).
>I think a company will switch (maybe to Linux) because this can bring down the
>costs for administration and support and development. But when this means that
>the users have to use a different word-processing application (most used is
>word, wordperfect, exc
>›el, 1-2-3-,...), the costs for user-training for the new applications (if there
>are) will be much more than they can reduce costs in support and admin.. So they
>will still use MS-DOS and Windows (or switch to OS/2 or Windows NT, there are no
>training cost
>›).
>
>But if you can produce a look-alike, which does first the basic (and most used)
>services, you can avoid trainig costs (for the Windows users). And the companies
Why do I get the feeling that this guy has been taking many business
management courses lately?
I like Linux just the way it is.
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