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With the movement towards Open Source platforms, how would one go about sharing or suggesting it to a friend or boss at work? Scott Morris provides his take on how this could be done.
There are a whole lot of people who use computers who have not heard of Linux. Scott Morris, who gets quite into Linux, has written a nice article on how Linux can be shared with people who may not know what it is. How can you tell who is a good fit for it? When would it be an appropriate suggestion for an enterprise. Mr. Morris answers these questions, providing a solid springboard from which to build your own case for Linux.
"One point upon which you can engage them is that of price. A quick calculation presented the right way may very well grab your boss’ attention. Let’s look at an example. A basic office employee’s workstation needs an operating system and an office productivity suite (word processor, spreadsheet, and email). To purchase this software from Microsoft, you will be spending at least $500 on each workstation. If you use SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, you’ll be spending about $50 per workstation. If you have 40 workstations, and buy your software from Microsoft, you will be spending about $20,000 on just software for those machines. If you use SLED 10, you will spend only $2,000 to fully equip 40 workstations with an OS, an office production suite, and several thousand excellent applications. The bottom has fallen out of the cost of running Linux on the desktop."
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