Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote: > A) I do not know about your local libraries but mine are still on > windowsxp. So they will have to replace it soon with win8. And that > has a steeper learning curve than any of the most common distros. B)
If Windows 8 does have a prohibitively-steep learning curve (and I don't believe it does) then they will probably simply upgrade to Windows 7. > win8 will require new hardware. Perhaps following on from XP, but generally hardware will be replaced to keep it in warranty as much as anything else. I know people running Windows 8 on some pretty ancient hardware, and Ubuntu seems (judging by other people's anecdotes) to be getting worse at old hardware, in any case. > Appart from canonical who could provide the service? And why is windows > service > cheaper than gnu/linux distros? I thought the reasoning was that one gnu/linux > admin was more expensive than a windows admin but a gnu/linux admin could > manage over more units, so turned out cheaper. Windows desktops are easier (and faster) to manage in number than Linux because Windows has AD and Linux doesn't. On the *server* that thing about volume-per-person is truer. It's been a few years since I last looked at this in any great depth, but not enough that anything developed in the meantime is likely to be mature enough to really rival AD. Windows techs cost less per hour than Linux ones traditionally, and when you're just running a few desktops that's how you think. If you're running a large number of desktops then the cost of retraining and retooling will probably dwarf the potential savings of not buying a discounted Windows license per desktop - nobody who is buying more than one or two licenses pays list price for them. -- Avi -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
