Hi Kevin and Vince First you need the time, that I haven't got, I sometimes work till 2 and 3 in the morning. I have a young wife who doesn't appreciate when I'm late to bed. Secondly I've got Linux running on a box in the loft which just acts as a file server. I've forgotten how I got it working so don't ask me to repeat the exercise. As of yet this is the first Client who would consider moving from Windows. Thirdly a lot of my clients have employees who are reasonably computer literate and can use explorer, control panel, display properties, msconfig etc and even some who are ok with regedit. Someone has to teach them to do the same things in Linux. That means all of them and at roughly the same time. Lastly I just need someone to take over from me and I'll gladly retire and just do the FoxPro parts of my business from somewhere in Spain.
Now Open Office or Star Office I can live with. They are so similar to the older versions of Office. I would have a problem with learning to automate them if that is possible. I now do this with ease from VFP to Excel, Word, Visio and I can just about manage to work with Outlook with some help. Cheers Peter By the way its only that I wake her when I go to bed, nothing else. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Cully Sent: 27 September 2007 15:46 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OT: Office 2003/07 I'm with Vince! Linux is not hard at all. You can even try it out without installing anything via a "LiveCD" version of Linux. Take a look at Ubuntu, Knoppix or (my favorite choice) of MEPIS. Most already come with OO by default as their Office packages. In addition, you'll often get Thunderbird for email, and FireFox as a browser. Never too old to learn! -Kevin CULLY Technologies, LLC Vince Teachout wrote: > Peter Hart wrote: >> At my age its to late to build the skill necessary to support Linux > > No it's not. Go. Learn. Learn like the wind! Start today, and you'll > know more then you knew yesterday. Study tomorrow, and you'll know > twice as much as today. :-) > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
