Brainshare: eThekwini Electricity

31 May 2004

The IT Manager of eThekwini Electricity, Philip Watkins, gave a talk on the migration issues encountered while planning for a migration from their old Windows 95/98 desktops to Linux desktops. Considers the Linux skills/support/training argument dead in the water, and was mostly concerned with just one application in their organisation - their ERP system.

Challenges for both Windows and Linux options were change management and long term viability.

Challenges for the Linux desktop were their ERP application and management of the desktops.

Challenges for Windows desktop were a conflict with their Open Standards strategy (a big issue for them), cost (not that important), and security.

eThekwini tasked Novell with the support, training/certification, and licensing challenges, and identified that they need to deal with their ERP application vendor, and change management.

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