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Story: Seizing opportunities to go open source

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Nice story... you forgot to calculate the cost of converting 200 PC's from Windows to Linux. Let's say you spent 1 day whipping up an unattended install disc, then let's say it takes about 3 hours per PC (some will take less, some will take more), so that's 200*3hrs, or 600 hours. Let's say you can do two PC's at once, so cut it to 300hrs. That seems low.... let's say 350 hours to convert all the PC's, including prep time, contingencies, answering all the questions, etc... At $100/hr, that's roughly $35000 to convert everything. Still cheaper than going legit with MS, but there's less margin for error when you factor in the real costs of going open source. I think you should be doing it gradually, not all at once - that's too risky. What if something goes wrong, and the company's information system needs to be shutdown for a whole day ?

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