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Migration to Linux: Questionnaire.

Oct 30, 2005 6:03PM PST

Hi everyone,

I am Ajith Kumar from New Zealand. As a component of my Master of Computing thesis, I am undertaking a study to identify the factors that comprise the rationale for the migration from Microsoft operating systems to Linux, in business organisations. The study will investigate the various issues associated with the migration from Microsoft operating systems to Linux.

If you or someone whom you know will be interested in filling up a questionnaire I would really appreciate it. The questionnaire can be accessed by clicking on the link: http://www.bcs.net.nz/~ajithk/MComp.htm It shouldn?t take more than 10 minutes.

Thank you in advance for your support, appreciate it.

Regards,

Ajith Kumar.

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Few "migrate", more integrate.
Oct 30, 2005 8:12PM PST

There is a basic flaw in your premise. You didn't include those that use both. For example we use MySql on Linux and the clients are mostly Windows.

Cheers,

Bob

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Thanks.
Oct 31, 2005 8:53AM PST

Thanks for your view, Bob. I appreciate it. In fact I'm looking for reasons why people make a complete / major switch over rather than integrate.

Cheers,

Ajith.

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That's smaller than I can imagine but..
Oct 31, 2005 9:41AM PST

I'm in the USA. Here and in the businesses that I call on, no one has ever done what you propose. It would be a death sentence for a business to shun Windows. Unless Linux or say SUN is your business.

For years I wondered as I saw SUN employees running Windows on everything they used. Yes there were SUN computers for servers but they didn't eat their own dogfood.

-> Scott McNealy only recently mandated that they practice what they preach and sell. I applaud such a move.

Cheers,

Bob

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That's smaller than I can imagine but..
Nov 3, 2005 1:10PM PST

Naaah!

Aaah! Private sector! The dark side has been using Unix, Hp Unix, Sun Solaris, and Linux distros for years.