Re: Help with ideas Win vs. Linux

Thanks Denis and the rest of the ALUG group that replied

Absolutely - At this point I dropped in a suggestion box that the dollar 
saving in Linux would be worth looking at.  At a town meeting he said 
that he will be getting the IT Guy to get in touch.

I am hoping and will likely suggest setting one station up in the 
production area as a test bed.  I am not sure what type of HI dollar 
windows stuff they have.  Yes they do have several Win98 systems and 
apps.  I guess even wine would work or vmware.  Most every thing else is 
XP=pro running a windows SAP init GUI and very little else other than ACAD

El Secretary-it wrote:
> Donn,
>
> problem hooking to windows network?
>
> Depends on how they have it set up.  If their are some smb shares on a
> windows server you should have no problem.  I do not know what kind of
> problems active directory or radius servers pose.
>
> To me the hardest problem is what ever "killer application" each
> department is using.  The bad news is that if you have multiple
> departments there is most likely a different third party application
> in each department that is critical to that departments operation.
> The good news is that in a surprising number of case those killer
> applications are running on a DOS or Win98 machine.  The easy fixes
> for that is Free DOS, DOS Box or Wine.  That department converts and
> keeps on trucking with the same application and archived data they have
> been using for the past 15 yrs.
>
> If you have to convert killer application try and see if their is a
> web based solution.  If you get a department converted to a web based
> solution they you are free to change out that departments operating
> systems as you please.
>
> For example I have recently set up SQL-ledger and moodle.  Each client
> just needs a browser to access.  The browser can be ie 6 or 7 or
> Firefox.  I did not try the rotten apple browser but I suppose it
> would work also.
>
> For calendaring Sunbird seems to be OK.  I have set it up on my own
> network once or twice and it allows you to export your calendar to
> your work associates.  I never did a shared calendar but I assume it
> is possible.
>
> I assume you know that open office runs on windoze, linux, Solaris and
> the BSDs.  Most people do not even know that there has been a change
> of software when you convert.
>
> I agree with every one else. A major over night switch is a lot of
> self inflicted pain.
>
> Don, I would like to know how your project works out, would you keep
> us up to date.
>
> Thanks
>
> Denis
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