On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:00, you wrote: > Open office might be abit to slow but what about abiword and Gnumeric? 1) Too big a departure from what they are used to. New programs give folks who are not computer oriented the fundamental shudders.
2) Interoperatability. afaik OOo is the only OSS package which is able to make a half decent crack at interfacing with MS Office on another machine in the office. They > seem to have much lower sys requirements and load much faster! Also if > Linux was to be installed your'd want to use Mandrake as it's i586 compiled > and you want every drop of speed you can get from those older machines. > > Mandrake 8.2 or 9.1 (you'll probably have to do text based install for 9.1) > with Abiword, Gnumeric and IceWM should run resonablly well on those > machines. Or if thats still a problem you could use the terminal server > pacakge for Mandrake to run the apps on the slower Machines from the > PIII550. Are you volunteering to supply and install all the networking wires and hubs etc.? [ ... ] -- Christopher Sawtell.
