OFB Community Mailing Lists

[Ed Hurst]

Working from the perspective of a public school IT guy, Chris Dawson at
ZDNet came up with I decent list of migration issues for moving users
from Windows to Linux. I get he's trying to find enough support from the
community to apply leverage in the future in convincing the school to
migrate.

   http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1977

His call for comment raised these issues. Anyone care to comment?

 - Printing: Some manufacturers still won't play nice with CUPS.

 - Dawson feels the groups policy in Windows is unmatched in Linux.

 - Group policy and domain controls for pushing updates and policy controls.

 - Complex Excel files constructed by those Excel gurus importable to
OO.org?

 - Something they called "extracurricular crap" -- 3rd party stuff not
in violation of rules and policies, but apparently not having any Open
Source equivalent. Take away the users' toys and they'll sabotage a
migration.

 - ADA compliance has been addressed to some degree, but even though I
work with this every day (a friend going blind), I don't have the means
to test the options because it would need a separate machine. Does
anyone have experience with this?

-- 
Ed Hurst
------------
Associate Editor, Open for Business: http://ofb.biz/
Applied Bible - http://soulkiln.org/
Kiln of the Soul - http://soulkiln.blogspot.com/