Christopher Cox wrote:
> ----------
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [expert] funny
> > Date: Sunday, November 14, 1999 11:10 PM
> >
> > RIGHT ON!!!!! Fortunately for me, I report to a CEO who is at the same
> time
> > computer-challenged and industry-wise. I have begun moving Linux, NT
> out. He
> > is all for it, as long as it works....WHICH IT DOES!
> >
> > Tim
> >
>
> He obviously does not use, or do business with anyone who uses,
>
> Quicken, TurboTax, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, need a powerfull graphics
> editor, do any VB programming......
>
> I think you understand.
>
> Christopher Cox
>
Hmmmmm
Yes, we do business with people who use Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. We have
LOTS of trouble with them in a WINDOWS environment. The runaway versioning and
untrained email transmitters make a real hash of trying to communicate.
Enter Linux. With StarOffice 5.1 and the macutils, we can now read mail and
receive files from others, including MAC users (a real problem before) and from
almost all versions. We have trained our employees to send out email
attachments using RTF and other "standard" interchange formats.
Now TurboTax and Quicken are different stories. We have equivalents, but no
true file transfer. Also, the accounting programs are different, but there are
more than a few available, and some of the packages expensive on any system are
available for both, like Fundware. The "application barrier to entry" is not as
high as most would believe, which suits me well. I have a system I know to be
Y2K compliant and for which I need not worry which pieces have fallen off since
last night when I go to work in the morning.
One of the other folks here who has been busily, even frantically, installing
Windows2000 BETA 3 for about 300 users is now dealing with infection by several
email-borne exploits (he calls them viruses, and they are in a sense since they
seem to be traveling by replies to email) that sneaked in on *.xls and *.doc
attachments and went right through the API drivers into the op system core.
You pays your money and you takes your choice. I don't have to worry about
email borne exploits or Y2K compatibility, and we have enough compatibility for
normal communication purposes, MORE in fact than we used to have with Windows,
where someone always had the wrong version, either newer than ours or older
depending on which way the email went.
Civileme
