Verona's University Migrates 4000 PCs to Linux

Here's some.

yep. love it.

Now how do we convince universities outside of Italy to follow suit?

Give them an offer they can't refuse?

"Now how do we convince universities outside of Italy to follow suit?"

The Italian university is not the pioneer.

Here is some old news from Germany: http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/08/28/226420/ger...

Maybe preparing a good open letter to a hypothetical "big boss" can help? Compose a one to two page proposal to switch to Linux and send it to as many "big boss" contacts as you can get. In that proposal, be short but informative; describe your transition strategy (first, Firefox and OpenOffice on Windows, then Linux and maybe wine, mention installations on top of Windows, group by group approach, etc.); describe the benefits (flexibility, security, prices, etc.); describe the weakness of Windows; describe alternatives to SharePoint, MS project, version control, e-mail, etc.; show some usage examples (from embedded to supercomputers). In other words organize your knowledge, thoughts, experience into one little pill. I'm sure you can compose a good pill -- I think you know enough. Then, if you want, maybe post it here for some other people to contribute and edit. Then let it fly.

@mort:

Right. We'll start with Sicily.