[CS-FSLUG] List of Migration Gotchas
Ed Hurst
ehurst at asisaid.com
Tue Dec 2 09:16:25 CST 2008
Working from the perspective of a public school IT guy, Chris Dawson at
ZDNet came up with I decent list of migration issues for moving users
from Windows to Linux. I get he's trying to find enough support from the
community to apply leverage in the future in convincing the school to
migrate.
http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1977
His call for comment raised these issues. Anyone care to comment?
- Printing: Some manufacturers still won't play nice with CUPS.
- Dawson feels the groups policy in Windows is unmatched in Linux.
- Group policy and domain controls for pushing updates and policy controls.
- Complex Excel files constructed by those Excel gurus importable to
OO.org?
- Something they called "extracurricular crap" -- 3rd party stuff not
in violation of rules and policies, but apparently not having any Open
Source equivalent. Take away the users' toys and they'll sabotage a
migration.
- ADA compliance has been addressed to some degree, but even though I
work with this every day (a friend going blind), I don't have the means
to test the options because it would need a separate machine. Does
anyone have experience with this?
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Ed Hurst
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