How to Run a Microsoft-Free Shop

STEP 6 We were entirely ready to haveLinux remove all these defects.

If step 3 was "Decide to do it," then Step 6 is "No, really decide todo it." Psychologically preparing your company to create aMicrosoft-free shop will require a complete rethinking of entrenchedtechnology and business biases.

First, you have to plan a phased approach to taking Microsoft productsoffline.

This occurs application-by-application. Firewalls first.

Then mail servers. Then Web servers. Generally, the desktopOS - Microsoft's monopoly - is hardest to eschew, and so itcomes last.