The vast bulk of my professional time is in the Windows environment too. I do tend to be doing more server and phone work in Linux than I used to. (probably a word of mouth thing).
I've had a few interesting conversations with a decent size winery in Griffith who are very active in pursuing open source solutions including desktops. E.g. they use Kbuntu running from a customised boot DVD loading the OS into a RAM drive on machines with 2GB + RAM. A reboot is just about like a fresh OS install. I think in some cases they have user settings on a flash drive. An increasing number of their core business programs can be accessed through a browser, so OS independent. At the division being free in both senses of the word is great, but the winery try to spend significant dollars on open source, whether it be through support licensing or contributions to projects. Also staff time contribution to projects. So for them, the money still spent on software, but more room to change the way things work and they escape from vendor lock in. Neil >Greg Twyford wrote: >Neil, >He obviously thought you were amazing too. >Also Linux is getting very good indeed. Pity I have to service Windows >users to make a dollar. >Greg >-- >Greg Twyford >Information Management & Technology Program Officer >Canterbury Division of General Practice >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Ph.: 02 9787 9033 >Fax: 02 9787 9200 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
