[TriLUG] Cheap Dell Server

[Meyer, David R]

What would be really interesting for me is to have someone how has
successfully convinced the powers that be that Linux is the way to go in
a large organization.  We have over 16,000 employees world-wide.  I know
the case can be made, but I just don't know how to go about it without
irritating someone...I'm good enough at that.

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Janyne Kizer [mailto:janyne_kizer at ncsu.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:24 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Cheap Dell Server

Our support calls have gone done as we get more and more linux servers
installed.  We had as many calls for our dozen or so Windows sites as we
did from all our our Solaris sites for a while there.  Our Solaris
servers are quite old and we have a lot of age-related issues so I can't
say that the OS is the issue in this case but the linux servers are on
the exact same hardware that we were using for the Windows servers
(since removed and replaced with linux).  We support over 1200 end
users.  We have nine calls in the queue at the moment and three of those
calls are on Windows-based PCs...

Jim Ray wrote:
> 
> Godfather Gill Bates probably made the boss an offer that the boss
could not refuse.
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From:   Meyer, David R [mailto:David.Meyer07 at ca.com]
> Sent:   Wednesday, April 23, 2003 8:47 AM
> To:     trilug at trilug.org
> Subject:        RE: [TriLUG] Cheap Dell Server
> 
> We are, as are most companies, in an expense crunch, so I had the
bright
> idea to move from Microsoft to Linux where we can to save $$.  In our
> case, well over a million dollars a year in licensing & support.  I
> proposed this to my boss who said, "Don't do it.  You'll open
Pandora's
> box, and once it's open, you'll not be able to close it.  There are
> politics at work here that we don't know about."
> 
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Janyne Kizer
Systems Programmer Administrator
NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
Extension Information Technology
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