| agroinno | Hello | 18:50 |
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| agroinno | anybody here? | 18:50 |
| agroinno | I have some questions for this community | 18:51 |
| mneptok | yessssss? | 18:51 |
| agroinno | Hi | 18:51 |
| mneptok | 'allo | 18:51 |
| agroinno | aneptok | 18:51 |
| agroinno | Well, I work with a small organization in Albuquerque | 18:51 |
| agroinno | looking to upgrade its technological infrastructure | 18:51 |
| mneptok | OK ... | 18:52 |
| agroinno | I'm wondering if there are consultants/companies in the Albuquerque area that do that sort of thing, with a full understanding of FOSS principles | 18:52 |
| agroinno | So that the idea of free software is built into the company's philosophy and infrastructure | 18:52 |
| mneptok | why do you feel you need a consultancy? | 18:52 |
| agroinno | I is an upper management decision | 18:52 |
| agroinno | They have decided they'd like to go with a one-stop-shop kind of deal | 18:53 |
| mneptok | you need someone to convince upper management? | 18:53 |
| mneptok | oh. | 18:53 |
| agroinno | No... | 18:53 |
| agroinno | I need a company that can help us deploy IT infrastructure | 18:53 |
| mneptok | how big is this organization? | 18:53 |
| agroinno | but one that has an FOSS focus | 18:53 |
| agroinno | 14 people | 18:53 |
| agroinno | approximately | 18:53 |
| agroinno | between 14 and 18 | 18:54 |
| mneptok | you don;t need a consultant. you need a good vendor. | 18:54 |
| agroinno | Could you explain more what you mean? | 18:54 |
| mneptok | if you were deploying 500+ desktops you would need a dedicated team to perform that roll-out. | 18:54 |
| agroinno | ok | 18:54 |
| mneptok | with 14 people, you just need a hardware vendor that is reposnive to you. | 18:55 |
| mneptok | *responsive | 18:55 |
| mneptok | IOW, there is nothing Albuquerque FLOSS Partners is going to do for a company of 14 people that Dell cannot do. | 18:56 |
| agroinno | well, we also have some custom software development needs | 18:56 |
| mneptok | for that, unless working on-site is requisite, i'd shop globally for a developer(s) | 18:56 |
| agroinno | ok | 18:56 |
| mneptok | look at System76 | 18:56 |
| mneptok | small Ubuntu-only vendor 7h north in Denver | 18:57 |
| agroinno | system76 | 18:57 |
| agroinno | we already have all the computers | 18:57 |
| agroinno | most of them | 18:57 |
| agroinno | but we need a crm solution | 18:57 |
| agroinno | perhaps a vpn | 18:57 |
| agroinno | a postfix based mail server | 18:57 |
| mneptok | management needs to understand that the things you are talking about are not installed like a new refrigerator. they will need ongoing maintenance. | 18:59 |
| agroinno | management understand that | 18:59 |
| mneptok | paying a consultant every time you need the mail server tweaked is not cost effective. | 18:59 |
| agroinno | won't be necessary | 18:59 |
| agroinno | i can tweak away | 19:00 |
| agroinno | and I'm an payroll | 19:00 |
| mneptok | so pardon, but why can;t you set this up? | 19:00 |
| agroinno | Is there an open source software vendor in albuquerque? | 19:00 |
| agroinno | this is my question | 19:00 |
| mneptok | i have no idea if there's one in the sense of an integrator. i work for a very prominent FLOSS project, and am based in ABQ. but we only care about your databases. ;) | 19:02 |
| mneptok | i have enough experience with SugarCRM to know that i'd rather hand over responsibilty for such assets to Salesforce. ;) | 19:02 |
| mneptok | and after fighting the spam wars, using Google Mail in small organizations gets more appealing. | 19:03 |
| agroinno | ok | 19:06 |
| agroinno | thanks | 19:06 |
| mneptok | if you need a VPN, a business-grade Internet router should have such functionality built-in | 19:08 |
| mneptok | good ones will offer both IPSec and PPPTP | 19:09 |
| agroinno | ok, thanks | 19:21 |
| agroinno | talk later | 19:21 |
| agroinno | bye | 19:21 |
| nick125 | Good afternoon. | 19:54 |
| mneptok | heya | 20:15 |
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