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Moving a large organisation from Windows to Linux is a sensitive and delicate undertaking. We have experience in helping organisations create a roadmap
to effectively implement the changes required for such a move. Intoweb have established that there are multiple steps as follows:
- Computer usage analysis
- Backend analysis
- Return on investment and cost analysis
- Backend system requirements analysis
- Backend skills audit
- Backend skills training
- Backend integration development
- Backend Linux rollout
- Desktop skills audit
- Desktop skills key people training
- Desktop e-learning rollout
- Desktop Linux rollout
- Desktop Launch and Public relations
- Desktop skills re-audit
1. Computer usage analysis
The first step is to find out who uses what within your organisation, and segment your employees into various groups.
Since some Open Source applications don't measure up to Microsoft's proprietary ones, it is imperitive to find out exactly who this applies to in your organisation.
An independent and objective evaluation would reveal that almost all employees could use their Open Source equivalents.
Typically in a large organizations that have desktops with very tightly defined functions such as limited functionality for very specific applications, we can easily identify segments that would easily move over to Linux. Here are some examples of employee segmentation:
Category one includes secretaries, helpdesks, clarks, tellers, receptionists, agents, etc. that use limited functionality such as Word processing, presentation tools, email, web browsing and spreadsheet applications.
Category two includes managers, administrators, accountants, sales consultants, etc that use Office functionality and extended office, such as database, project management, etc
Category three includes propriatry users, such as Oracle, SAP, etc that already have propriatry software ported to Linux
Category four includes developers that use a separate development server for code execution and storage
Category five includes power users that require programs that are only used on their machines but have Linux equivalents
Category six includes Microsoft vendor locked users that use programs that have no Linux equivalent and is vendor locked into Microsoft.
After sorting all employees into the relevant categories, it is then possible to create an intelligent roadmap for rollout of Linux within your organisation.
2. Backend analysis
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