On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 02:26:19PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Our company is considering to migrate some Desktop PC??s to Linux. To > rephrase: I have to prove how far the development of Linux is feasible in > our company! > > I have a checklist about the programs which are used in our company. Most > of the vendors of these programs don??t support Linux solutions/Clients > (hopefully it will change as soon as possible). Therefore I am looking for > alternatives by taking into account the compatibility to our existing > programs, because we will not migrate all PC??s. > > I hope you can fill in my list. If this is no subject for this mailing > list, please let me know or maybe you just prefer it to send it to my > private email address, it would be nice! If you have already experienced > alternative products playing/working with the common windows based > products, please write down a mark between 1-6 (??1 ?C very well?? to ??6 - > very bad??) in brackets behind the certain program and if u don??t mind with > a short explanation of pros and cons, just insert with a comma and use a > ??P:?? for pros and a ??C:?? for cons! > For example: Alternative: openoffice(3,P:faster, more stable, C:" not > compatible to Microsoft excel 2000 sheets), staroffice (2) > > > Following the list of the programs my company used: > MS Office 97/2002 > ------------------ > Linux version: No > Alternatives: openoffice(), star office() > Comments:
koffice, corel WP for linux. > MS Netmeeting > --------------- > Linux version: No > Alternatives: > Comments: Any other h.323 software? Should be some out there. > Power Archiver (Free compression tool) > ------------------------------------- > Linux version: No > Alternatives: > Comments: gzip, bzip2, tar, zip/unzip, lha, etc. > Irfan View > ---------- > Linux version: No > Alternatives: > Comments: No idea what that is. > Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw > ---------------------------- > Linux version: No/yes (PhotoPaint) > Alternatives: Gimp(), PhotoPaint() > Comments: I can't think of any others, except maybe xfig for some small items. > Lotus Notes Domino 5 > --------------------- > Linux version: No > Alternatives: > Comments: IBM very much supports Domino on Linux. Check www.lotus.com. Or just do a google search for "linux lotus domino" > SAP > ---- > Linux version: mySAP > Alternatives: > Comments: Don't even know what it is. > Adobe Acrobat Reader > Linux version: yes > Alternatives: > Comments: xpdf, gv, gs > And last but not least one question: > If we come to the conclusion to migrate to Linux which Operating system > would you choose for a Desktop solution and WHY !?!? Sorry, I am too biased to answer that. :) being an admin I will only use Debian now. Too lazy to deal with the frustrations of any other packaging system. > That??s it! Thanks a lot! > > If you find any mistakes in my listing your are welcome to correct ! ;-) Not too many. :) Lennart Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
