On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 at 18:41, Juan Miguel Cacho wrote: > The Leather Collection, Inc. is a companny that uses linux on servers > and some workstations.
I was gonna keep mum but my dear friend and suki plugged in so I have to explain things in more detail. The Leather Collection, Inc., where I am a director by heritage and a Network Administrator by profession, has been running a Linux server since 1999. These servers (always been one at a time) handled the central file repository using Samba, as well as an Internet connection that started as an on-demand dial-up connection using diald and then is now a dedicated PLDT DSL connection. Our server is also now a proxy/firewall, a web server, and an email server (plus is my workstation, ganyan talaga kapag economic crunch). Recently we just launched Linux-based workstations for our new factory store in Makati and our kiosk in Greenbelt. These run StarOffice and Mozilla for browsing our onlnie catalogue, various office functions, email, et al. They dial-up to a small modem pool handled by our Linux server in our headquarters in Alabang. I am also now embarking on a project that will hopefully put Linux on various POS-like stations on the factory floor, where we hope to track jobs as they go along the process of fulfillment for more responsive production scheduling and management. For this I intend to use a PostgreSQL database backend, and then either PHP + a browser, or Python (with GUI) for the front-end. Also, with Microsoft putting Windows 95 in its dump of archived products in 2002, we will have to migrate more and more of our existing Windows 95 workstations to Linux with a decent office suite like (for now) StarOffice. Unfortunately we cannot just do this "plug and play" because of the need to support a lot of patchwork Excel files that have cross-file linking which StarOffice 5.2 does not support. These should be databased, but until I set up and release that database-driven system, life will operate on Excel. For accounting we are forced to use QuickBooks. We evaluated SQL-Ledger but it didn't cut it. So we will still be using Windows on some workstations. Unless of course I get to run QuickBooks via WINE properly. Something to play with after I've exhausted myself working on the rest of the clearly-databaseable systems. :) Anyone interested in helping me think through the database layout is welcome to pitch in. For free of course. There -may- be monetary rewards -after-, but for now everything's non-commital. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key: http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/jijo.gpg _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
