[KLUG Members] Re: Linux in local government???

[Bryan J. Smith]

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On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 11:15, Paul VandenBosch wrote:
> We are on a Novell network with NT servers and may move toward Novell
> products such as email over MS when available.  Our email service is
> horrible (NT).  I would like to push for more open source products,
> particularly in networking and servers, but I'm just a department head an=
d
> the sysadmin knows better.

Ever consider products from Bynari (http://www.bynari.com)?  Improves
Email reliability not only on the server (InsightServer) but, even more
importantly, on the _client_ (InsightClient) as well.  And they don't
force you to use their server, if you just want the client -- any
standard IMAP server will do.

> I've tried to encourage change but our sysadmin is too busy and
> change is too scary for now.

If costs go down and reliability goes up, without significantly changing
the desktop so there's no "user retraining" involved, then it should
matter what runs the backend.

> Local government is probably not the easiest area to promote open source,
> due to the wide range of software systems in use and in some cases we are
> required to use a specific system (usually MS based) by the state.

Which is why the DOJ case was flawed.  Governments don't understand the
problem _until_ they look at the problem from the standpoint of a
_consumer_ instead of a "regulator."  Hence why Open Source wasn't well
represented (if at all) in the case.

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