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duane@shara.connect.com.au (Duane Schultz) writes:

>Richard Keech   Open Systems Group (rkeech@colesmyer.com.au) wrote:

>: put more generally, what are the options for a unix-based desktop to
>: properly inter-operate within a thoroughly microsoftened organisation?

>When it became clear that we were going to _need_ to get access to MS
>apps (sales-people seem to have fascination with emailing 2.5MB excel
>spreadsheets around) we installed a Wincenter machine - a hacked
>version of NT from Citrix which will bring an NT login session up
>inside an X windows session. It's still painful, but it's fast and you
>can turn it off when you don't need it. ;-)

	I can second this solution. Probably the most glitch-free 
desktop in our office of some 400+ PCs is my own running SCO UnixWare
on a Dell. When I need to run MS Apps I run my "wincenter" alias which
fires up an rsh to a Compaq 5000. This presents me with a real "window"
into an NT 3.51 server running mostly 32-bit apps. A number of folks
are buying into this solution because I put all of our newest apps 
there first (e.g. Corel Suite 7, Office 97 Pro, etc.).

	A few are even using this solution to abandon their PCs altogether.
I've already got a couple who traded in (I won't say "up" or "down") '486
PCs for HDS FX stations, one in lieu of a proferred HP Vectra XM and I've
got requests for ten more. I got a kick out of stumping one sceptic by
opening a graphic session to my UnixWare desktop, then firing off an NT
session from the Compaq, then linking to my Linux box to display a Netscape
session. This on a 12 MB box without floppy or disk!