An opening for open source?

[Travis Roy]

> On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 10:15, travis at scootz.net wrote:
>> I bet you anything they're in some contract with MS and will have to pay
>> the
>> subscription rates anyway even if they dump MS. They did this of course
>> to
>> get a lower yearly rate on the subscription. Also, it's what everybody
>> that
>> works on the stuff already knows and they don't want to spend money on
>> re-training the staff.

> Negativity rarely helps progress.  It costs nothing but time to go to
> these kinds of things and dismissing them out of hand is ridiculous.  We
> all know the arguments to these kinds of objections and personally, I
> think Ed is doing what any real linux advocate should.  Ed, how do you
> find out about these kinds of things?  It would be nice to get it on my
> radar..

Didn't I also say good luck? I'm just pointing out things that are going
to be said and possibly brought up. He should have answers for all of
these responses. I'm getting him prepaired for what to expect. The
subscription thing would be a killer, but as far as retraining and
migration he needs to have answers to their questions and concerns. Even
if they replace staff with new unix people they'll need to keep the old MS
people around for the migration process, if they keep the MS people and
retrain them it will cost money, where will this money come from. Big
seller here is the long term picture since you're still paying every year
for MS, but the retraining is a one time cost (well, mostly, since they
might need training for new things in the future that we don't know about
now)