On Bugs and Linux Quality

[Karl Goetz]

On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 14:03 +1000, Null Ack wrote:
> Slawek having been on the tender process for numerous Government
> contracts (both inside in the Government and outside in vendors) the
> key pros / cons for Linux I see are:
> 
> 1. Pro - reduced TCO
> 2. Pro - easy sell for servers
> 3. Con - hard sell for desktops. I did not see anything particularly
> solid in preventing this - its more a lack of understanding. Im sure
> some areas really could not do without Office but most that make this

I find it less confusing to call "Office" "Microsoft office". helps
destinguish from [star,open,gnome,kde]office :)
kk

>  claim are in my experience wrong about OpenOffice capabilities. Some
> sites have custom .net apps running so it would be critical that Mono
> or some equiviliant really worked. Actually I dont really understand
> all the whining about Mono as I understand that is is now an open
> standard and not a MS standard? Theres probably going to be the
> occasional legacy app written on the win32 application platform that
> doesnt play nice with Linux. What we did on one project where all the
> infrastructure was replaced was to have a few citrix sessions running
> legacy apps - for some reason they didnt want virtualisation for
> desktop apps.

I dont remember who said it, but i find the quote "The biggest cost of
proprietary software is migrating away from it" (something like that
anyway) quite relevent. Not very helpful when "selling" gnu/linux, but
still relevent.
kk

> 
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Karl Goetz <karl at kgoetz.id.au>
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