[wplug] directory of regional Linux consultants?

[John Harrold]

Sometime in April Eric C. Cooper assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| I am on a committee advising a local independent K-12 school on their
| technology roadmap.  Some consultants have already recommended that
| they spend many tens of thousands of dollars on Microsoft licenses for
| their servers, and are pushing Windows 2K, Exchange, Active Directory,
| etc.  The open source alternative has so far been dismissed because
| they think it's easy to find Microsoft consultants to help them, but
| difficult to get Linux help.
| 
| Naturally, I'd like to fight this perception as convincingly as
| possible.  If you have pointers to a list of Linux-savvy consultants
| in the area, or simply know or represent one such organization, please
| email me any info you have.  If you know of any case studies in the
| area, that would be great too.  I'd really like to address the whole
| cost of ownership of using Linux vs. MS servers in this kind of
| environment.
| 
| I'll be happy to share the compiled data with the group (maybe it
| would make a useful addition to WPLUG's web site).  Thanks for any
| help you can give me in fighting the good fight.

hey eric.

you should probably contact redhat and ask them. i realize you're not
looking for redhat specific people, but they will probably direct you to
people who specialize in many linux variants.

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