On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 01:09:13AM +0200, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote > A. Khattri wrote:
> >I dont think switching from say, Windoze to Linux requires more than a few > >hours of learning - even Novell has managed to switch 90% of their Windoze > >users to Linux and OpenOffice (and having worked in large corporations > >like AT&T, I take a *very* dim view of corporate users...). > > > > > yes if the user was using windoze only as telnet client (from a dos > session) to a unix machine. > Otherwise your switching time assumption are a bit too optimistic. Computer-lliterate corporate users in big offices are probably the *EASIEST* case to switch over. The IT people take care of anti-virus and networking, etc, the end-users would only need to point+click at the start-programs-panel and start the spreadsheet, email, word-processor, whatever. Tell them that "slashes point the other way" in file-open and save dialogues, and that's it. I'll be turning 55 in October. I remember, and still use, the DOS commandline at work, unlike some people half-my age. (A gold star for anyone who knows the significance of "PIP") If you think that Joe Average has extreme problems with the linux commandline, I have news for you... Joe Average has extreme problems with the DOS commandline. You wouldn't believe how many people I have to handhold at the DOS commandline at work for basic tasks where the Windows pointey-clickey-touchey-feeley-ooowee-GUI is useless. And I'm not officially part of IT support. So problems with the linux commandline are *NOT* an extra cost of switching over. In scenarios where the end-user does *NOT* get hand-holding from the corporate IT staff, but has to do at least part of their own admin, that's where you'll see the most problems. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure, and has a lower TCO, than linux. -- [email protected] mailing list
