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RE: [PLUG] More critique of Linux desktop
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Title: RE: [PLUG] More critique of Linux desktop
>-----Original Message-----
>From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
>[mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]
>Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 12:31 PM
>To: PLUG ML
>Subject: RE: [PLUG] More critique of Linux desktop
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>On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 12:26, Howard Bloom wrote:
>
>>
>> I drive Windows on my desktop because I use:
>>
>> Outlook
>> Act!
>> DeepAnalysis
>>
>> And about 20 more products that don't exist in Linux.
>
>Well, with a bit of work (not too much, but a bit), you could dump
>Outlook for a Linux version. With the right add-ins, it will even speak
>to Exchange, for group scheduling with others, on the Exchange server,
>if you have a need for that.
>
>(yes, I know there are other groupware scheduling products for Linux,
>but they don't speak directly to Exchange, and so make it more
>aggravating to schedule with those who do)
>
>Haven't used Act! in almost 9 years, and then only sparingly,
>so I can't
>comment there. Nor on the other you mention, as I've never heard of it.
>
>Of course, going from one OS/one set of programs to another will ALWAYS
>involve SOME pain and confusion, getting used to the new ways, etc.
>Perhaps you over-estimate this amount of re-learning/re-training/etc.
>
>
I missed most of the fun chatter on this...
But, in a business setting, switching OS's should have
a financial motivation. Just because the OS is free and/or
open source isn't enough, if you have to spend hours yourself
and/or pay someone else to retool the new OS.
If Windows is doing the job, and doing it adequately...great.
when it stops doing it adequately, then you need to look into
an alternative, whether it's a different MS OS, or not.
Linux is great for some things, and terrible for others
Windows is great for some things, and terrible for lots of others
Point being, I don't either will put either out of the market
each OS has it's faults that allow the other a niche.
Best of both worlds is running two networks, windows and linux
George
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