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Re: [PLUG] questions on an office-wide conversion
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Take a serious look at the VMWARE product line for running windows type
apps from within Linux
We use it quite a bit
Sincerely
Dan Roberts
Jackie Patti wrote:
> I run a small consulting business. We primarily use Linux on servers
> currently, which we access over our LAN via putty.
>
> I'm getting frustrated with the time it takes to setup and maintain
> Windows workstations and am seriously considering a move to Linux on
> the desktop.
>
> I have a few questions for you folks:
>
> 1. My previous experience with Linux has been primarily through MC on
> our servers rather than GUI-based. My husband set up a small box with
> KDE on Redhat recently and when I was playing with it, it seemed
> really slow. The box had 64 Meg of RAM and appeared to me to be
> significantly slower than Windows 9X on a 32 Meg box. Are we just not
> figuring out the best implementation yet? Is Gnome better? Or does
> putting a GUI on Linux make it slower than a Windows box and I just
> have to plan to need lots of RAM?
>
> 2. We do a lot of MS Access development work. Does anyone have
> experience running Access97 or Access2000 on WINE? Is it do-able? Or
> am I just going to need to keep a box set up with Windows for this
> type of work?
>
> 3. My sales and admin people aren't actively opposed to changing, but
> they are already familiar with Windows and will need training. Anyone
> know a good end-user course for StarOffice?
>
> Thanks in advance for your comments and suggestions.
>
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