Re: Survey: Who Uses GNOME

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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 01:20:59 -0000

Gonzalo wrote:
> To say that they found it easier to use because they were accustomed to
> Windows might be valid, but that in itself is not a negative thing and
> greatly oversimplifies the issue. Even if this was the only advantage, most
> organizations can do without the additional retraining costs.

Oh. I know that. That is what I wanted to say. If you would have done
the test between KDE and Windows, then Windows might have been the
prefered thing as that is what they already know.

I personally HATE the mac desktop. The time I used it, nothing did what
I expected it to do and I was experienced with both Windows and Linux at
that time.

> What we wanted to test essentially is whether the idea of the Linux desktop
> was feasible for the selected group and by feasible we meant whether it
> could be done without having to increase the in-house support staff of the
> organization or without any decrease in productivity.

Pitty you are not allowed to disclose that information as it could be
only good for the company if they were more open about it.

> To our satisfaction,
> the users in the pilot project have become the biggest advocate for change
> within the organization and we are already seeing big savings.

That is true with ALL management decisions. Let staff participate or at
least let them have the idea they participate. Let management take the
large decisions (we are going to use Linux) and then ask staff for input
on level of what the desktop should be like, what the colors should be
like and what icons should be used.

If you do that cleverly and with a somewhat open attidude to your staff,
you will have followers that you can not believe.

If directed corretly, they will come with solutions you and the
management never thought of instead of working with some droids who do
things 'because that is how we did it for years'.

If you think that your staff is not able to make certain decisions, you
have hired the wrong staff.

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