Cool! B-)
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:16 AM, John Peter Loh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > About two years ago, I saw a Pentium 4 server providing LTSP to about > 80 computers (mixture of 386 to Pentium MMXs) at a manufacturing > plant. They used OOo (not sure what version) and Thunderbird > primarily. Another server acted as a gateway, proxy (their ISP is > SMART Bro) and mail server. > > If I remember it right, I was told that they've been using the same > configuration since 2002. The guy that configured the servers left the > country when we took a peek (and he's probably a member of PLUG, too). > > They were very happy with the configuration being low maintenance and > all. They only had 1 IT personnel. He attended a seminar on Linux then > from there he fixed daily problems with the LTSP server being > overloaded. It was then that they sought for help to upgrade the > servers since they are about to expand. > > Only two computers had Windows installed for opening MS Office > documents that won't open properly on OOo. > > Pretty close to corporate use but that's one case that I'm proud of. > There are a lot of small offices that also moved to Linux. The largest > that I know of has more than 300 computers with Ubuntu. > > Q1: I think it's very ready for corporate desktop. > Q2: When one client of ours saw how Linux worked fine in an office and > how much was paid for the license, he said, "Bill better send me a > card this Christmas." I think it's the cost. > Q3: Lots and lots of preparation for training (user and support) > > Regards, > JP _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
