Re: Expect news soon regarding Munich's FOSS migration

[Matt <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> ____/ Matt on Sunday 16 March 2008 19:09 : \____
>
> > High Plains Thumper wrote:
> > > Matt wrote:
> > > > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> > > > > Matt on Sunday 16 March 2008 16:35 :
> http://www.muenchen.de/cms/prod1/mde/_de/rubriken/Rathaus/40_dir/limux/publ/first_year.pdf
> > > <SNIP>
> > >
> > > > > > Since they migrated 1000 workstations to Linux in one
> > > > > > year, any simple fool can tell you it will take them 14
> > > > > > years to migrate all 14,000 workstations.
> > > > > It's not quite the case. In the first year they would have
> > > > > to look for or to port applications to Linux (that's what
> > > > > they wrote somewhere). Also, Linux evolves all the time
> > > > > (Wine, for example, improves), so the beginning is the slowest.
> > > > You were not supposed to give a serious reply.
> I thought you were sarcastic and spent a few extra seconds trying to find
> evidence of this, 
Those who assume that Linux adoption is linear in time are the "simple 
fool[s]" mentioned.
> without success, so I gave a serious reply. :-)
"Smile when you say that" would have been a good reply.  :-)

BTW, it will go something like one of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalised_logistic_curve
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_curve