[NTLUG:Discuss] Any open source success stories?

[Lance Simmons]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 04:23:48PM +0000, m m wrote:
> 
> what kind of software are you looking for? for the general use in the 
> office, for CSE student do the programming project, or for servers...
> you can get them free. some of them you need to use Linux operating system 
> (OS) not Bill Gate's Windows.

Our comp sci students already use linux and solaris, etc. What
we're deliberating is how to get to the entire undergraduate
college's faculty, staff and students all the software they
need. Right now pretty much everyone uses windows. We had a
multi-year grant from microsoft that has expired (basically free
site licenses for pretty much all their software), so we're
deliberating whether to sign up for a total solution that would
give all faculty staff and students access to microsoft products
at drastically reduced prices.

Our networks have been becoming more and more NT based over the
past few years.

> 
> I think you may get a pressure, if you do not sign up for MS deal. and/or if 
> you switch/migrate a new system, you will get a lot complian in the 
> beginning. 

I guess the problem is that I don't think the network and
support people are inclined toward free software. I'm a faculty
member (philosophy), and would like to nudge them in that
direciton, and to do that I need good ammunition.

> the best way is you may start try use some free software in the 
> beginning in a small scale. 
> Cann't you have other options and microsoft pagkage in your proposal.?

I hope so.

Thanks to everyone for many helpful comments.
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