From: Thees Peereboom 

Geo,

I think so, too. There's no reason why users should have to do that
themselves. I also agree with the fact that one shouldn't underestimate the
cost of retraining users.

But I wasn't so much talking about Linux/BSD on the workstation but
Linux/BSD on the servers. That's where the major costcutting is found,
without having to retrain each and every user.

There are many cases where I fail to understand why somebody spends 1000's
of euros for a simple F&P server that has to run Windows, while it
could run Linux or BSD for almost next to nothing.

- Thees Peereboom

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 19:27:57 -0400, Geo.  wrote:

> that's not really the issue I was looking at. We moved to NT with NT 3.5,
> that was the fileman/progman interface. Moving from that to NT4 GUI was a
> major retraining effort for our employees. Their productivity dropped for
> a
> while as they struggled to learn how to get around the new interface.
>
> I think a big wig complaining that employees would have to spend hours
> moving their appointments over to the new system is a valid complaint.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
> news:oprqhz6tdr7q6jhl{at}news.barkto.com...
>> Geo,
>>
>> Yes, it does. Linux is not necesarily cheaper than a Windows solution,
>> initially. The fun starts when you can add users without paying
>> additional
>> licenses, add new systems without additional licenses, replace your
> current
>> systems without buying new systems, etc.
>>
>> - Thees Peereboom
>>
>> On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 06:09:47 -0400, Geo.  wrote:
>>
>> > "Adam Flinton" 
wrote in message
>> > news:3ee44d2a{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >
>> >> the change over simply because of this. The solution
required them to
>> >> spend a couple of hours moving their appointments over to the new
> system
>> >> but they prefered to spend many hours complaining etc instead.
>> >
>> > do you consider a couple of hours of each employee's time to be part
>> of
>> > the
>> > cost of upgrading? Retraining time as well? That can very quickly add
>> up
>> > and
>> > offset the price difference between products.
>> >
>> > Geo.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
>

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