Whenceforth the Ubuntu fanboyz now?

[ted leslie]

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 20:32 -0500, Tim Writer wrote:
> ted leslie <tleslie-RBVUpeUoHUc at public.gmane.org> writes:
> 
> > And whats really bad is that SUSE claims to have sat generic computer
> > users down and done evaluations to build a easy to use system.  They
> > improved in some areas (i think) and actually got worse in others.
> > With all the $$$ spent in Linux, you'd figure they could just sit 
> > down a nice population (statistical representation of)  5000 users,
> > capture the issues they have and solve the issues, its not like its rock
> > science, its just a bit of coin needed. What would it cost to have 5000
> > people submit to 160 hours of "monitoring"? at 16$/hr thats 12M$,
> > someone just spend it (in the linux camp) and be done with it for pete's
> > sake. 
> 
> That's a simplistic analysis. Many office workers are paid $40,000 to
> $60,000 (or more) so $21/hr is a more realistic minimum. Then, there's
> overhead (office space, benefits, etc.) which is usually between .5 and 2
> times the hourly rate. Call it 1, so you're looking at $42/hr. Already your
> project is costing over $33 million and that doesn't include the cost of
> developing the survey, deployment of the desktops to be monitored, or
> analysis of the results.
> 
> Who are you going to monitor? Imagine the disruption caused by having your
> desktop and familiar tools replaced for a month. Would you allow your
> employees to be subjected to that? How much would you charge for a month of
> lost productivity? Or, did you think people would do this instead of taking
> vacation?
> 
> > One thing that is interesting at my work, is that they just got a
> > crackberry outlook express server thingy. And the installing company
> > says to interface with it from Win desktop you need to go to the full
> > 2003+ office suite, that has a outlook client to support corp.
> > calendaring (or so they say). So i google and hopefully Evolution
> > (windows client) for free will come to the rescue. If it does, i can
> > hopefully steer another 10-15K$ away from Bills pocket.
> 
> I just finished a contract at AMD in Markham (formerly ATI) where they have
> an Exchange server. I tried the Evolution root, as did a lot of the Linux
> people there. I spent about a month struggling with it until I finally gave
> up. IMO, Evolution is good for one thing: showing Windows users how bad
> Open Source software can be.
> 

Care to elaborate on your sol'n? or was it payments to Bill in the end?

-tl

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