On Tuesday 25 May 2010 10:42:34 Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 2010 17:29:54 -0400 (EDT), Peter Easthope wrote: > > Stephen Powell wrote: > >> (3) The need for special backup requirements will be > >> used by the opponents of Linux at my place of employment > >> to oppose further deployments of Linux, ... > > > > What about the carrot approach? Find an even better > > backup method, compatible with Grub 2 and appealing > > to your management for its efficiency. > > You're missing the point. The main selling point to management > is that Linux is free. No software is entirely without cost. Free Software is no exception. There are usually no up-front licening fees, sure. However, volunteers work on whatever they like, and if no one volunteers to maintain and support your software you may have to pay for that. Even with volunteers providing maintenance and support, your specific requirements may differ from their goals and that will require effort to resolve. > If they have to buy new backup software > in order to accommodate Linux' backup requirements, that will > kill it on the spot. Whatever boot loader I use must not > require new backup software or impose special backup requirements. > And its not just money. As a rule, people like what they know. If money is the issue, move to a free backup solution. Amanda and Zmanda both support backing up a number of OSes, including Linux and Windows and are free software, last I checked. You've already proven free solutions in your own servers. Moving to a free solution for backups is a next logical step. Also, volunteers are rarely concerned with "market share", losing your management as users is not necessarily a concern to them. If it is a concern for you, you may have to put forward some additional effort to address your management's issues. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.