On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 10:21 +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
Hans van der Merwe wrote:
Thx, but the practical problem is this... we have two competent Windows centric IT people... one IT manager who overdosed on the MS-Coolaid.... we have an AD, 70 XPs (full house, Office etc), MS-Portal, MS-Exchange, MS-SQL, BackupExec, MS-IIS, FullSiteLicense(TM). To move just one of these over to something else will require another Linux IT person (we cant afford), IT manager wont let IT staff go on Linux course because we don't have Linux servers (catch-22).
I'll admit, this is actually an valid issue.
Now I want persuade management (who knows nothing about IT and assumes its always expensive) that we can move over some of these services to cheaper alternatives.
How are you actually going to make cost savings in this situation? If you can show that replacing some component will save the business substantial money, FUD will evaporate. If you can't, there's no hope :(
Yes but something like - "But, TCO is much lower with current Widows arch than Linux, see these reports" (classic FUD) is difficult to counter - I need company expenditure reports and such to be able to make a point - and TCO is difficult to compare. My actual problem is that the IT manager is not an idiot - he is just a die hard capitalist - with some really good business points. The MS momentum is really hard to argue against, but I would like to at least try. E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org