Selling Linux to Windows Users

Robert Holtzman holtzm at cox.net
Wed Dec 10 21:07:20 UTC 2008


On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote:

>>  Some pundits will say switching to Linux will cost money.  What they
>> don't tell you is switching to "any" new platform costs money.
>
> Then don't say that people will save money switching from Windows to Linux.

Like he said, it's a nonrecurring cost. Not paying for licenses and 
upgrades will over time amortize the cost of switching (it says here).

                   ..........snip..........

>> Whether that platform is a free OS or something like Mac it is going
>> to cost a certain amount to migrate but the total cost of migration
>> can be kept to a minimum with free software.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
The most dangerous ones aren't the ones who don't know.
They're the ones who don't know that they don't know.




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