As much as I love open source and think it provides tremendous value to organizations, I have to realistically evaluate any large migration and observe two obvious points:
1) It's different. There will be people who will not want to see it succeed. You will need to PROVE that the functionality provided is SUPERIOR and that the cost of migrating is overcome by the reduced ongoing TCO.
2) Is your organization ready to provide the level of support it has become accustomed too? Are you a MS Enterprise or Select customer? You need to prepare for the fact that to some extent the warm fuzzy blanket of misleading comfort is being pulled away from the organization.
I would NOT begin by migrating something. I would begin by looking for a new unit, group, or area of the business. New is much easier to accomplish than migrate.
Finally, if you are a hardcore MS shop, the financial pitch to MGT can be the leverage that doing something small can provide in price / service negotiations.
I tried to SuperTarget my search:
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by checking chinese and violation
It didn't seem to make a difference in the results which were totally different than googles...
I think its unbelievably curious how the PAX network is not listed in the network dropdown on the complaint form...
Apparently the PAX network can do no wrong.
And people keep asking me why we don't buy servers from Dell.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned in thinking that a company that continuously innovates the technology and not the distribution or marketing channel is whom I should get my technology from...
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As much as I love open source and think it provides tremendous value to organizations, I have to realistically evaluate any large migration and observe two obvious points:
1) It's different. There will be people who will not want to see it succeed. You will need to PROVE that the functionality provided is SUPERIOR and that the cost of migrating is overcome by the reduced ongoing TCO.
2) Is your organization ready to provide the level of support it has become accustomed too? Are you a MS Enterprise or Select customer? You need to prepare for the fact that to some extent the warm fuzzy blanket of misleading comfort is being pulled away from the organization.
I would NOT begin by migrating something. I would begin by looking for a new unit, group, or area of the business. New is much easier to accomplish than migrate.
Finally, if you are a hardcore MS shop, the financial pitch to MGT can be the leverage that doing something small can provide in price / service negotiations.
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I tried to SuperTarget my search: chinese suppression violation human rights by checking chinese and violation It didn't seem to make a difference in the results which were totally different than googles...
I think its unbelievably curious how the PAX network is not listed in the network dropdown on the complaint form... Apparently the PAX network can do no wrong.
And people keep asking me why we don't buy servers from Dell. Maybe I'm old-fashioned in thinking that a company that continuously innovates the technology and not the distribution or marketing channel is whom I should get my technology from...