[Ambassadors] Technology Transfer to Linux from MSWindows presentation

[Pawel Sadowski]

On 7/25/06, Karlie Robinson <karlie.robinson at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> If you really want to convince them - get them where they hurt - MONEY.
>
> Ask - How would you spend your money if you didn't need an IT budget?
>
> Simply, Everyone has stuff they'd rather spend their money on.  If they
> could cut out all software expenses, could they get more/better
> hardware?  Use the money for something other than IT?  I'm sure the
> Afgan Gov't could think of a few things their software budget could be
> spent on.
>
> Present the idea of - why buy an office suite?  when you can get one for
> free?  then wow them by opening a .doc with OpenOffice or the like.  "It
> writes, it calcs, it even saves as .pdf"
>
> and since you're going FOSS on the Office products, why are you paying
> for the OS base?
>
> Not to mention if you choose Fedora for the Operating system, you'll no
> longer need to pay for Anti-virus or Spyware protection software...
>
> Cutting out virus and spyware software alone should cover the costs of
> migration from Win to Fedora - even if they have to train their staff.
> because even if it does require a little money, the time to recover the
> investment is very short - Without running the numbers (cost of software
> vs cost of training staff) I'd guess the Return on investment would
> happen between 3 and 5 years.  After that time, it's all money in the
> bank.
>
> If you really want to lay it on thick, you can hit them with the Vista
> hardware requirements and how Fedora Core 5 will save big money because
> they can skip the 1 gig memory upgrades.
>
> Shal I go on?
> ~Karlie


Oh, Karlie - you're a great marketing person. Huh, if I didn't already use
FOSS, I am sure I would migrate :)

Cheers,
Pawel
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