On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Brian Witowski wrote: > All good advice, but I would still keep a Wintel box around as a backup. In
That's funny. THanks for making my morning. "wintel box as backup" weeeeee. next you'll suggest grabbing a novell box as a backup fileserver? > theory it shouldn't be needed, but try telling the client that when the box > with VMWare blows up and he can't do his books. Or when he complains that And what do we tell the client when the "backup wintel box" blows up? > he doesn't like the performance hit by running multiple O.S.'s. Besides, > there is nothing inherently wrong with keeping 'extra hardware around'. Sure, nothing but the cost of the hardware, and the M$ licensing fees for the software. > Besides, its just good sense to have some sort of fallback when implementing So keep a backup linux box, and spend less money. > ANY type of new solution, hardware or software. Most larger corporations IT > depts. will beta test new apps/O.S.'s/Hardware for months before rolling > out. There's good reason for it. Because M$ sux and can't be relied upon to do their own dependable beta testing? > > Good Luck. Indeed. You'll need it if you're going to stick with M$. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Net Llama! > > Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 8:09 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Client Switching to Linux > > > > > > Michael Hipp wrote: > > > I have a client that is considering switching to Linux on his desktops. > > > Yippee! Here's the app list we have to replace: > > > > > > Windows XP -> Red Hat 7.3 Pro > > > MS Word -> StarOffice 6.0 > > > MS Excel -> " > > > MS PowerPnt -> " > > > MS Outlook -> Evolution (???) > > > MS Access -> (keep a Win machine handy???) > > > QuickBooks -> (keep a Win machine handy???) > > > Palm sync -> ??? > > > > > > Is Evolution really a good replacement for Outlook? What do I do about > > > syncing the Palm? > > > > There are quite a few options for this. See freshmeat for suggestions. > > > > > > > > This client is an attorney; very smart, tired of Windows. I > > already have a > > > server ready to go in his office (Dell PowerEdge 500SC with Red Hat 7.3 > > > Pro). > > > > > > Thoughts? Advice? > > > > Either StarOffice-6.0 (if he's willing to spend the money) or > > OpenOffice-1.0 for Excel, Powerpoint stuff. In fact, i'd say, instead > > of keeping additional hardware around, use VMware if he really must have > > any of the M$-Office stuff, or access/quickbooks. > > > > -- > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com > > > > 5:05pm up 72 days, 23:53, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.20, 0.30 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
