Migrating Your Office from Windows to Linux? 682
bastiji asks: "I work at a mid-sized company, around 50 people and 90% M$ shop (10% being the Sun server doing our backups). Most of my users are using Office 85% of the time with some specialized apps thrown in for good measure. With the upcoming licensing changes from M$ my finance guys are worried about increased spending on even the software that we already own. I've been to told to look for alternatives and I'm asking for your help. How does one begin to do migration from a totally dependent M$ shop to the least expensive options. Are there any examples for mid-sized firms taking this route and any public examples of cost-savings?"
Head to the supply store... (Score:2, Funny)
low cost office (Score:5, Funny)
Good way to show reduction of costs... (Score:5, Funny)
pr0n (Score:1, Funny)
...linux fully deployed in 2, maybe 3 days on the outside.
Minesweeper and Freecell (Score:5, Funny)
Re:unfortunately .. you dont (Score:2, Funny)
So instead you'll buy Windows?
I'm not migrating. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not sure if this works but... (Score:2, Funny)
Grab their hards
Hee hee.
I think this is the first typo that ever made me bush --err, I mean blush.
Re:Good Luck (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Not so simple (you forgot the BSA) (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, and isn't MSFT that guy with the liquid theme?
GD
Re:Heck, changing non-business people is no easy t (Score:3, Funny)
If you were doing your "anal administrator" job properly, this isn't a problem. You see, the anal NT admin would only allow the end user to use the mouse on their machine. Typing would require an admin password.
So the answer is to become an anal NT admin, then switch everybody to Linux when they are used to not being able to do anything.