Re:French Gendarmerie: "Open source desktop lowers TCO by 40%"
by teddyh on Monday September 30, 2013 @03:53PM
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
— Upton Sinclair
Re:French Gendarmerie: "Open source desktop lowers TCO by 40%"
by singold on Monday September 30, 2013 @09:04PM
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This made me remember the other day in my job (I'm the webmaster) when I asked the IT dept. to install Firefox or Chrome (at least) on my machine (I was developing the main site on winXP + IE8). They told me that they couldn't because of 'security concerns'
The problem is, it's been making sense for a decade now, at least for the office suite. But these wins against Microsoft remain one offs.
There are many reasons for this, but IT professionals are part of the "problem." Someone with a lifetime of MSFT certifications and training can come up with a dozen reasons why open source is bad. He needs to save his livelihood.