[balug-talk] Linux computers for the police! With Link

[jim stockford]

    serious efforts to further this idea ought to be
fervor-free and concentrate on investigating
small areas that could separately be converted
with the least retraining and recoding, etc.
    Isn't reusing old equipment well one of the
strong arguments in favor?
    And who's to say if the existing software and
workflow should not be improved--regardless
of OS and other platform considerations?



On Oct 9, 2006, at 8:17 PM, Greg Herlein wrote:

>> It would indeed be a major task to retool a police department with 
>> Linux--
>
> The cost actually would have little to do with Linux - and a lot more
> to do with the applications any legacy organization has in place.  To
> port/rewrite/modernize those applications for linux is a MAJOR amount
> of work - not to mention the training costs associated with the
> smallest change (for the cops as well as the support staff).
>
> This thread is interesting but ultimately I fear nothing will come of
> it.  The cost of re-tooling an organization has so little to do with
> the OS and so much more to do with the work flow, the custom
> applications, the support infrastructure, and the momentum of
> sloooooooowwwwww changes...  and frankly, all of the current
> infrastructure is already paid for.
>
> Is linux better? Obviously.  Would it make fiduciary sense to change
> the City PD to Linux?  Probably not.
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