On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:45:51PM +0100, Tarquin Mills wrote:
Can you give me a *very short* explaination as to why City College should switch to open source IT? We have a funding crisis at work and need to save money, so I've suggested we do this to the principle, but I really don't know much about it.
If you could point me at something not too tecky, I'd appreciate it.
[snip] Someone sent the above to me could you supply me something to give them. Thanks in advance.
They are running _one_ router there to be honest. I know this for a fact since I know a lot of people up there. I even offered to work for free to help improve some routing issues etc etc. But they turned me down anyway.
Forget it. You will _not_ get Linux implemented there because
a) Current system in place is functioning okay..... Okay, that was a little white lie.. I do recall that the mail server gets rebooted almost daily sometimes. It's Microsoft Exchange! b) They constantly spend money on _NEW_ routers etc. Seems like their system life cycle is like every 6 months. They just basically sell off their "old" computers and then just buy newer equipments. Cash crisis? Probably. c) They know that Microsoft peeps such as Sys admins there are cheaper to hire where *nix are demands higher pay. Fair enough but with *nix people, you can be ensured that the network will be looked after 100%. d) Windows licenses. Yes. We know about this already. e) Students... I am sure they are finding out about *nix slowly but then again, they just seems clueless when it comes to technoogy. Oh well.
I could go on however, they shouldn't really spend too much on newer technologies all the time. And most of all, their network gets hacked now and again (I even done it during my college years....).
You could speak to John Pollit (I think that is his name correctly) but as far as I know. He won't look into it at all.