[TriLUG] Outline for proposed Linux for Business presentation.

[Andrew C. Oliver]

On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 01:30, Jon Carnes wrote:
> On Sunday 13 January 2002 22:39, you wrote:
> >
> > Ont the length, I'm agree in principal but I'm not entirely sure we can
> > cover a great deal in 2 hours.  Perhaps we should consider 2 separate
> > sessions instead of one.  Divide it up into IT-infrastructure and
> > Applications Development and Productivity.
> 
> Hmmm, I had not thought of doing a speil on Applications Development.... I 
> can see why that might be attractive as well.
> 
> My focus has been infrastructure.  The savings for using Linux on the 
> back-end of a corporation are easy to see.  I think our focus would need to 
> depend on the audience... We might find them more receptive on the clearly 
> tanagable savings that come with using Linux in the Infrastructure:  
> Firewalls, Mailservers, FTP hosts, Webservers, Fileservers, Printservers, 
> Routers, and Network monitoring. 
> 

In the past, in my experience, I've gotten a bit of "thats all good and
well but what of our ASP pages."

> >
> > I like the idea of a catered sit down.  Again, however, it points the
> > need for a sponsored approach as I can't imagine the LUG could/should
> > pay for that out of the geek pizza money :-).
> 
> Yes.  We would definately need a sponsor.  Perhaps a local University might 
> be interested in this kind of mini-seminar.
> 
> > I think we should definitely focus on integration in an existing windows
> > network and case it that "okay if you replace your PDC and central
> > servers you save X"..
> 
> Fortunately all of the above services work well and integrate into an 
> Environment using a Microsoft PDC.  It doesn't have to be replaced - though 
> once a business has the expertise to run Linux in-house, they will 
> certainly want to drop the MS version and run the Samba version.  The 
> savings are considerable!
> 

Right, the point was showing the savings.

> >
> > Any thoughts on implementation?  Marketing is really something I'm
> > learning about currently.  I've got the "Marketing For Dummies" book and
> > everything.  For the "productivity" part of the talk we should endeavor
> > to find a good accounting type package to demo as well.
> 
> Well this depends on our audience.  I don't envision an audience that is 
> looking to move 100% over to Linux, so we really don't have to replace all 
> productivity tools with Linux alternatives.  It should be enough that the 
> applications can be hosted easily on Linux servers and the apps will still 
> work fine on their Windows Workstations.

With the new and more costly Office licensing and press that
Star/OpenOffice(.org) have been getting, I would suggest we do cover it
along with the cost savings.  This might even make a good tie in with
say Flowe Desktop for instance.

> >
> > Do we also want to do comparisons of Linux to Solaris?
> 
> No.  Solaris' niche is that of a higher end server.  Also, true Solaris 
> folks are only slightly less fanatical than Mac users.
> 

just wondering.  As opposed to all those nice accepting non-fanatical
Linux people haha.

If you've got a moment, could you maybe alter the outline a bit and fill
in some details?  Is anyone else still interested in this?  The
conversation seems to have branched (which is cool) into a more
non-profit based program (which is very cool).  


Thanks,

Andy

> Jon
> 
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