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Newx at this college ...



This college (15 k students)  has  decided  to go 100% linux!!.  All
Novell+NT servers will go gradually down and a RedHat  (hehe)  setup
will power the several systems running inhere.  The news came like a
bomb,  today.  This college is fed up with the licence-blood-sucking
policy from, mainly, Novell. 

As  I  mentioned  in  an  early  message  of  mine  to   the   list:
globalization   of   economy,   .edu   budget  cuts  and  the  nasty
consequences from  the  equalization  of  macro-economies within the
(European) union, are bulldozing the way open to LinUX. 

Anyway.  I already  recruited  (thru  the  network  boss  here  -who
happens  to  be  a fiend of mine, hehe-) a 30 peer-student group for
the experiement.  The idea is  to  establish  at this college a beta
end user group which will grow from zero and will keep  testing  and
doing  data  input for the SEG.  IMO, this is the safest approach we
may have to obtain hard-core data.  Data gathered from the net could
be complementary.

BTW: All of the guinea-pigs are-and-willbe informed and well willing
to be  such.   Dont  worry  about  ethical  issues,  this'll  be  as
transparent as LinUX deserves.

That's all for 2day from this end.
Cheers,

    Aldo
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