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Re: [PLUG] questions on an office-wide conversion
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Jackie Patti wrote:
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> 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?
I personally do not like the ``desktops'' KDE and Gnome because of their
size and memory usage, but I find that there are a plethoria of window
managers that are small and efficient that run wonderfully on a box with
32M RAM. I have set up Desktop Linux boxen with Star Office 5.2, or
Corel Word Perfect with Icewm | fvwm95 | fvwm2 | ???. You can also
install various window managers on the system allowing the user to
choose the one they like. Even the clerk that types correspondance will
have a choice in the office. Also, with the employees working as normal
users with limited privelages there will be a lower risk of being
attacked by a virus.
Thus the answer to a GUI based enviroment is totally up to the user and
how they work.
>
> 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?
MS Access is really a SQL front end and There is a book called the SQL
Programmer's Reference that has a wonderful table in the beginning of
the book for all of the SQL commands for the various enviroments: ANSI,
IBM DB2, Informix, MS Access, MS SQL Server, Oracle, and Sybase. The
two MS clients don't even agree on the same functions, which is normal
MS behavior.
>
> 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?
My wife was able to sit down and use Star Office out of the box with no
training for the functions and the drop down windows are basically the
same. Even the spread sheet uses the same functions whereas Quattro Pro
and Lotus use the same function format which is not used by M$.
>
> Thanks in advance for your comments and suggestions.
>
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