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Re: [PLUG] questions on an office-wide conversion
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On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 09:53:36AM -0500, Jackie Patti wrote:
: 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?
Telling us that the box has 64MB really doesn't tell us anything.
CPU? Video type? Other notable items?
: 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?
Access? Eww.. I'm sorry. Probably not under WINE, but definitely
under VMWare.
: 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?
This is something I just don't get... Training for basic office
applications? It's not like you're asking them to do aeronautical
simulations or anything. It reminds me of a conversation that went on
directly behind me in CompUSA yesterday. Two people were talking about
how much they need to get into a class for MS Word, because they couldn't
figure out how to do anything. It's a stinking typewriter for crying
out loud! You wonder what a button does? Point the mouse at it and
it even tells you! I can understand a short tutorial book or quick
CBT for teaching end-users, but a full-on training class?
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