On Sunday 07 January 2007 02:54, Sachin G Nambiar wrote: > > How many clients are there in total? Using thin clients will be a > > good option for the users. > > > > Also, the users can be trained on the use of Open Office and > > Linux based e-mail clients. > > Training in my own experience has been very difficult, people > almost immediately seem to compare it to their regular systems and > start finding faults. > > I thought if i could setup atleast one guy who does not use any > major application (cad or tally in this case) and uses only email > and drafts letters and so on. He could perhaps recommend it to them > in due course..
You are trying to trickle down (or up) usability. That will most likely not work. You need to make a sound busine$$ case, by assigning value to the pros and cons of using GNU/linux. It's not easy. But will save you from stupid users and brain dead IT bosses. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
