Future of open-source (Re: Windows virtualization and Linux)

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I'd love to see a discussion covering TCO at one of our future meetings. =

As you are pointing out there are many cases where Linux may not have a=20
better TCO than Windows. I'm thinking maybe a short 10-15 presentation=20
from 2, 3 or 4 credible people followed by a discussion deferring the=20
politics to CBC. I'm looking for things like actual numbers and=20
experiences. We have a number of members who work for fairly large=20
companies who can get good numbers.

On 11/18/2008 04:03 PM, Rich Braun wrote:
> But to get/give any real benefit to it, you absolutely have to (1)=20
> yank out
> any hostname- or application-specific stuff related to the internal sys=
tems,
> and (2) recompile/re-run in an offline environment.  I.e., some level o=
f QA
> before I can upload to SourceForge, develop some PowerPoints and presen=
t at,
> say, a future BLU meeting.  Labor cost may not be much, but it's not ze=
ro.
>
> And you can see how overloaded with work I am...note the job posting th=
at I
> made earlier today (and on two other occasions during the past year).  =
This
> time I got a couple responses, hopefully I'll have done my little part =
to ease
> the recession for a couple of families.
>
>
>  =20


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