Linux for an association I work for.

[Micha Feigin]

On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:58:33 +0200
David Harel <hareldvd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> 
> I need your help regarding convincing the vice president of an 
> association to shift from MS XP to Linux. What I did till now was 
> install Ubuntu on two machines that were phasing out and failed to run 
> MS. We got all services we needed including connectivity to external 
> resources.
> 
> Currently the objection to my initiation is in three items:
> 
>    1. Make Linux connect to IPVPN (thought it is straight forward).

The easiest way I found to connect to a VPN was using netmanager and all the
respective vpn packages. I am currently running wicd though since network
manager wasn't stable with my wireless (don't know if it's network manager or
the driver since connection is finicky also with wicd)

>    2. Maintenance cost.
>    3. Getting his approval for my test (seems like a small man).
> 
> I need information to try to overturn his stubbornness.
> 
>