Linux Business Proposals?

[Brian Chabot]

Hello All,

I was just curious if anyone has had any success with writing a proposal 
for their company to increase the use of Linux.

I'm really interested in seeing what approached have worked and what 
management thought.  (And yes, I have read the Advocacy HowTo.)

A recent announcement at the company I work for that they will be moving 
to a .NET base got me nervous.  I work in tech supportr and I have to 
support this.  Anything I can do to move to a more easily supported 
architecture would be much better.  I was thinking of proposing a custom 
Linux install with our software integrated... Something easy for the 
end-user like SuSE, Mandrake, or RedHat. (I like Mandrake for itiots as 
end users, myself.  All it would really need is Apache, Perl, and mySQL. 
  Webmin makes things easy for the end user...) But aside from the 
details of what I am trying to do, I'm really intersted in seeing 
proposals that have workd in similar situations.

Anyone have any that have worked?

Thaks in advance,

Brian