Re: [PLUG] questions on an office-wide conversion

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

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?

I run RH 6.2/KDE on a machine with about 80 mb ram. The same machine ran 
Win95 with 24 mb ram faster but no where near the stability.

> 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?

If you are developing for clients who will be using Access in Windows, 
I'd do the development on that platform too.  Even if Access runs fine 
under WINE.  What happens if your custom app runs under WINE and not 
Windows?

> 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?

It's quite similar to MS Office.  It may work better for you to 
customize the StarOffice toolbars, etc. to make it look more like your 
copy of MS Office, and your staff should not have too much trouble 
adapting.  This worked for me.

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