Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 1st Oct 2004 00:16 UTC
A senior IT executive at a major pharmaceutical company summed up the challenge for Linux at the ZDNet UK IT Priorities conference when he asked one simple question: what are the benefits in migrating from Microsoft to Linux at the desktop?
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"So to sum up, lack of support from big vendors such as Siebel, IBM, SAP (in our case) prohibit any plans to move to Linux. In addition, there is no ROI from simply moving to Linux from Windows as this (the OS) is a "very" small part of the big picture"
BINGO! Who gives a damn about the OS when the vendors you are dealing with couldn't careless themselves.
Unless your vendors are going to float the boat for your migration; you are screwed before a single shot was fired.
Been there, done that.