From: "Geo." 

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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