is a clinic that uses linux on nurses stations or across a wan just as interesting to read about as, say, a typical 10-20 person LAN in an office in Makati or Ortigas?
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 8:13 AM, AC Perdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Healthways clinic use linux as desktop nurse station even my doctor uses > it. the desktop they use is gnome. > > -AC > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Marvin Pascual <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 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 > > > > -- > AC Perdon > Registered GNU/Linux User #340122 > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- http://kikay.exchange.ph http://mom.exchange.ph http://basketball.exchange.ph http://linux.org.ph ======================= Make life easier for Webmasters! http://spreadfirefox.com/community/?q=user/register&r=137994 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
