speaking of email problems. I've noticed that Dante's emails don't get through
to me. I noticed in the last month that as various threads progress, people
respond to Dante's emails of which I had never received. I thought that was
kind of strange.
Paul
From: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:32:22 -0400
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LinuxUsers] little off topic
I agree with Dante here. IMHO you need to install and use a Windows machine at
home, you aren't going to learn enough about fixing small business issues if
you aren't using it. I don't mean the occasional usage, I mean actually
setting it up and trying to do the same things that small businesses are going
to be doing. Networking, file sharing, email, etc, this will help you
understand what causes problems, how to fix them, and suggestions to make on
software. Knowing the Outlook is a pain doesn't mean that Thunderbird is going
to be a better solution for that company and you aren't going to know the use
cases if you don't use it and see the benefits.
For most of the small businesses I have done work for I would never have
recommended a move to Linux. For one, the software they needed required
Windows and cross platform alternatives were crap. Even Openoffice is very
much lacking in dealing with Office documents properly and businesses need to
be able to send and receive documents to and from other companies and
residential customers. Those customers are not going to have Openoffice
installed or have anything that supports open formats.
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Dante Lanznaster <[email protected]> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Paul Saenz<[email protected]> wrote:
> I am planning to offer IT services to small business, and I know that when I
> go
> and do so, many people are going to say that their computers are running
> slow, so
> what I need to do first is to research and find what are the typical and
> most likely
> kinds of problems that are causing computers slow down.
If you're adventuring into this market, be ready to ditch linux
in a commercial way. It's gonna be restricted to your personal
time. Unless the small businesses in your area operate
completely different from the ones in San Diego, of course.
And performance-wise, when there's a problem, there is rarely
a program that will be point-and-click, much manual troubleshooting
involved.
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