Over the years I have been gradually reducing our reliance on Windows. Our main ERP application runs on the Progress RDBMS under Linux. Really the only thing left now is Lotus notes. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like there will be a linux client in the short term. They have now discontinued the Solaris client. (In fact in the long term this could be a good thing because it will push me away from using a proprieyary solution.)
We use Notes for email which can easily be replaced. However, we also use it for document storage. Instead of word processing in something like word or Openoffice we use Notes. It is a little primitive but has all the features you need for 99% of letters. This creates a central store of letters and also gives a way for easy seaching for documents and lists document summaries. The email need can be solved with an IMAP server and any number of clients. The individual word processing / spreadsheet need is solved by Openoffice. Does anyone have any suggestions about how I might provide the central document storage, searching and summaries provided by Notes? Then I might be on the way to being Microsoft free. Regards Steven -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
