LF Collaboration Summit 2009: The Role and Opportunity for Linux in Today's Economic Times
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- May 1, 2009
- Al Gillen, Research VP, System Software, IDC
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Actually is pretty easy to justify migrations, just do the actual spreadsheet. Training and Migrations cost have been proven to be LESS than license cost. You only need to do it on a smart and agile way.
Technology and e and b learning have really lowered the cost of training, and effciency has also gone up since the very first tries of electronic learning. Better than that, you are able to hold sessions through your enterprise through webinars, and have pre-saved videos.
The problem is that there are other agenda to assume that there is just a lot of uncuantifiable cost that makes it impossible. Most of the times this cost also can't be really specified. It's just assumed, and thats the issue.
Right now you can migrate your corporation to OpenOffice.org for about 1/10th of the cost of a OEM license of Microsoft office. That is approximately 1/3rd of the subscription license for volume license agreements.
We realy need transparency in this decisions so we cant move on to adopt FLOSS across the corporation and not just "assume a cost".