sir,
I too would like to give a helping hand in this.
I once heard from my RSM (Reg Sales Manager) when he was referring to
Mahatma Gandhi : "Greatness is doing the Ordinary things in an extraordinary
way". Never trying to do the extraordinary things at all.
This may not be in anyway corresponding to this discussion, but we always
remember this when we try to give a presentation to one of our serious
prospects, or, whenever we take part in any technical exhibitions.
I would like to do the same things once again - for those who come (apart
from the students) :
- who are using Windows
- also looking at other ones (may be due to some virus / commerical reasons)
- but are not sure to contact any serious vendor to come /go & discuss with
them
- first would like to use themselves & then later on they would like to take
them into their official use
- see how easies / difficult to migrate from Windows to Open Source
- what is the support level / how they can get support - FOR THE MOST SIMPLE
THINGS that are needed in the daily official use
- whether they themselves can do most of the support for the daily official
use
and so on.
I still suggest to do the most ordinary things :
- explain to them what are the ordinary things they perform with computer
: personnally at home / and officially
- use mail, surf web, use to write documents, use to compute with
spreadsheets, do presentations, and sometimes watch movies, and hear music.
- how we do the same with Thunderbird / Evolution, Firefox / Google,
Open Office / K Office / Symphony / Abiword / Gnumeric etc, VLC player etc.
- how to do dual booting with Windows & Linux etc
- how to connect with their official windows mail server (through
exchange etc) like this
All the above mentioned things are not something different, but, which are
the most ordinary & sensible things that one might want to.
I would still want one or two old pcs : just for showing how to install &
dual boot : one / two PCs with Openoffice etc.
MAY BE I AM WRONG - in saying these.
In any case, thanks for the opportunity.
S. Sivakumar
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