>>Then again, people at companies that have suffered week long losses of >>engineering time due to Microsoft email viruses taking down >>servers, are >>not really in a position to laugh at anyone, are they?
Very true. Time to educate these folks.. Ryan -------------------------------------- Ryan McCain Northrop Grumman Corporation Linux System Administrator 3 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 225.219.0556 Fax: 225.219.0540 Registered Linux User #364609 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/17/05 7:40 AM >>> On Tuesday 17 May 2005 11:05 am, you wrote: > Thanks for that response.. Very insightful. You are welcome. > I'm taking the angle of not > trying to push OSS down their throat, rather, I'll say here is where we can > start: DNS Servers, Print/File Servers, DHCP Servers, Web Servers, etc. That's a perfectly reasonable thing to do. > If I went in there with the attitide that OSS is a perfect fit for any and > everything, I'd get laughed out of the room. > Well of course. You have to have specifics, such as distro, KDE, OO, with win4lin, crossover office where required for general clerical workers. Specific packages and programs for other specific employees, such as draftsmen, are tricker propositions and blanket statements will get you squashed. Then again, people at companies that have suffered week long losses of engineering time due to Microsoft email viruses taking down servers, are not really in a position to laugh at anyone, are they? Again, I wish you luck. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
