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| dardhal | The lecture is in HTML format |
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| dardhal | http://www.maslinux.com/umeet |
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| dardhal | In the following days we are improving he documentation, with more standard formats |
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| dardhal | Let's begin |
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| dardhal | Since 1996 I am investigating, exploring and waiting for this, as many other people |
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| dardhal | Te day I will be able to switch my desjtop to soimething more stable, i will know about tru freedom |
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| dardhal | After many years of tests and discussiion, I think the time has come |
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| dardhal | In this time I have been doing consulting, I have created a very humble consulting company, www.maslinux.com |
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| dardhal | I've been with this project for a year and a half by now, and during this time I have found many different environmens, that I am about to explain |
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| dardhal | There are some predictiions on the media about Linux penetration into the desktop market |
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| dardhal | Linux will have 33% of computer desktops by 2003 |
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| dardhal | For thos of you that don't know, I live in Panama |
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| dardhal | Latin america is in a very different position with respect to Europe and NOrt America |
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| dardhal | And here still remains the belief that "if it costs much, it must be good" |
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| dardhal | I have found customers who didn't contract me because i was "too cheap" to be good |
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| dardhal | What makes you doubt, but there ara always customers who believe in you and what to bet to something new |
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| dardhal | To check linux viability into the desktop, let's use a tool developed in the tech industry |
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| dardhal | By now, I have only seen success Linux stories in the server market, bt this is a market where Linux is "easy to sell" |
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| dardhal | The rea challenge is to install a whole bunch of things all over the place avoiding masive amounts of money escaping your country |
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| dardhal | Specially here where our countries are poor |
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| dardhal | 25% hardware y software |
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| dardhal | 21% Administration |
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| dardhal | 5% development |
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| dardhal | 4% communications |
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| dardhal | 21% final user |
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| dardhal | 7% lost time |
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| dardhal | I now am going to explain these thing |
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| dardhal | Lets see the tipical case |
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| dardhal | NOTE; the above is the composition of the TOC (Total Cost of Ownership), y forgot to translate this one :=) |
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| viZard | We´ve been able to see how these TOC relates with |
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| viZard | TOC solutions using free/Open Source: |
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| viZard | 20% Hardware & Software |
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| viZard | 15% Administration |
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| viZard | 23% Support |
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| viZard | 5% Development |
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| viZard | 4% Comunication |
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| viZard | 10% Final user |
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| viZard | 4% Dead time |
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| viZard | i´ll explain |
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| viZard | There are different methos to gain a disminution at this topic |
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| viZard | by one side, we eliminate the clicles of upgrading hardware and software |
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| viZard | what we are used to di, cause there were not another choice |
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| viZard | We can do this by centralizing all our storage resorces |
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| viZard | prossesing, by dispatching information to thin clients |
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| viZard | This cost really is much higher that 20% |
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| viZard | cause we don´t know what kind of license will the client use in the next 2 years |
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| viZard | Administration: the cost reduces a lot |
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| viZard | The average price of a remote tool of inventary for other OSs is about $50 per client machine |
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| dardhal | The good part about this is that the initial investment is just spent once, and once you have trained your admin, personnel, adquired yourmanuals and documentation |
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| dardhal | many of these thing are even available on the Intenret |
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| dardhal | development and communications dont matter a lot, because they are independent of the platform chosen |
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| dardhal | howeverm, we coulkd take into account the benefits of unifiying networks protocols |
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| dardhal | that would imply less upgrades to our networking equipment, giving us further savings |
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| dardhal | hidden costs is where there is a greater loss |
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| dardhal | final user stechnical support is one the most expensive tasks, in time and money (one user losing his time helping another user, foir exasmplei( |
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| dardhal | This is cause number 1 of lost productivity |
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| dardhal | and must be eliminated using proper support tools, to minimize support costs |
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| dardhal | dead (lost) time: |
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| dardhal | time a user spends waitig for another user to help him |
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| dardhal | we can implement a end user support infraestructure that includes instant messaginh, version control for installed programs , silent upgrades, centralized backups, |
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| dardhal | thaat way we can reduce support costs to a minimun, and even being a lot pessimistic we can estimate a 19% save in TOC costs |
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| dardhal | with respect to a propietary solution |
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| dardhal | a tipical case, a small business wit 5 PC |
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| dardhal | Our missioin: implement a permanent internet connection (for example, ADSL. CM, ISDN) |
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| dardhal | share resources, legalize all installed software (becasue the BSA have already sent some red envelopes) |
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| dardhal | Now, please refer to the publised documentation at http://www.maslinux.com/umeet/ |
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| dardhal | TYhere is a table with the corresponding references |
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| dardhal | 5 Winfows XP license, 1495 USD |
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| dardhal | 5 Office XP licenses 2395 USD |
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| dardhal | Microsoft don't sell lower versions anuy more |
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| dardhal | 5 memory upgrades to 128 MB, another 150 USD |
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| dardhal | 1 license of MS small business. 1499 USD |
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| dardhal | cable modem for one year, 600 USD |
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| dardhal | giving us a total of 6139 USD |
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| dardhal | and this is the fiugure in a situation where we have been extremely optimistic with respect to total costs |
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| dardhal | we have not included future necessary licences, neither training costs, for example |
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| dardhal | with our estimations, this little busines could have saved at least a 5% with respect to the popietary solution |
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| dardhal | <rmillan> vamos a ver si esto es cierto: |
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| dardhal | <rmillan> 5 KDE Mandrake 8.1 (download) $0 |
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| dardhal | <rmillan> 5 Koffice, Staroffice $0 |
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| dardhal | <rmillan> 5 Upgrades a 128MB RAM (DEK conworks just fine with8MB RAM |
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| dardhal | 1license of mandrake single network firewall SNF 99 USD |
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| dardhal | sorr, memory upgrades are 150 bucks total |
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| dardhal | cable modme, one year, 600 $ |
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| dardhal | for the file server we can use any of the local pc with another copy of the same mandrake version |
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| dardhal | total inversion: 850 $ |
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| dardhal | this kind of deployment can take me about 28 hours, at 30 $ an hour, a total of 840$ of consulting |
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| dardhal | and 20 hours of training for 10 people, additional 450 $ |
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| dardhal | Total cost: 2139 $ |
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| dardhal | Saving in soft+hard are about 35% |
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| dardhal | now we must correct our initial calculations |
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| dardhal | instead of being 25% of cost, har+soft should account for only 17% |
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| dardhal | sorry, 16% |
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| dardhal | so my TCO reduces even further to a 77% of the cost of the equivalent propietary solution |
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| dardhal | just remember we have given many advantages to the cost anmalysys of the propietary solution |
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| dardhal | we have not taen into accoubt their cost os trainig, additional licenses, consulting , etc. |
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| dardhal | Using a pure TCO we have just shown that a linux desktop is an economic viable solution |
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| dardhal | Linux is free, but free as in speech, but not always as in free beer |
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| dardhal | we have shown one configuration, bit the customer could have chosen a diffeent one |
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| dardhal | With respect to technical viability, how many of you use MDK 8.1 ? |
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| dardhal | in my last MDK 8.1 ionstallations, it failed in just one of them, just oine |
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| dardhal | and this time there was no failure, jus the customer opted for RedHat instead ;) |
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| dardhal | It is been more than a year that i don't need to load a driver via modprobe, and i fear of forgetting it :) |
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| dardhal | some of the very few great problems thatt still remains are: |
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| dardhal | 1. laptops |
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| dardhal | 2. printers |
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| dardhal | 3. scanners |
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| dardhal | my own computer is a portable one, and i hads problems with its modem, it was not detected, as well as the printer |
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| dardhal | because is those of "all in one" devices with no drivers and specs from the manufacturrer |
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| dardhal | and finally, my scanner wont' work |
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| dardhal | however, these problems canbe easily avoided searching for the compatible hardware lists |
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| dardhal | and it is not different to what have happened with drivers for windows 2000 not being available |
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| dardhal | it is all about time |
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| dardhal | My opinion is that linux works reasonably well with standard generic hardware |
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| dardhal | This yields us as result: |
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| dardhal | 1. A reduction of 23% in TCO |
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| dardhal | 2. Easier installation that any other os, with all the funbctionality "out of the box" |
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| dardhal | I was thinking about clsing this lecture with a "top 10 reasons" not to use windowss (code red, nimda and so on) |
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| dardhal | but instead i will focus on the real reasons i think linux is ready for the enterprise: |
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| dardhal | better software |
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| dardhal | more return on investment |
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| dardhal | freedom |
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| dardhal | to get a success with linux on the desktops we must address little and medium sized busineses |
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| dardhal | big business feel good paying large amounts of money to big business feel good paying large amounts of money to get licensesget licenses |
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| sarnold | thank you dardhal :) |
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| dardhal | governmeents and business are slowly being forced to evaluate free solutions because the actual state of thism with respect to software upgrades is impossible to keep in the future |
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| dardhal | specially with economy downtunrs like currnt one |
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| dardhal | If linux is to have a chance in the desktops, the time is NOW |
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| dardhal | Thank you for your attention, and sorry for being so late ther iun Europe |
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| dardhal | -The End- |
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| viZard | gracias =) |
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| viZard | Eres de gran ayuda =) |
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