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Article #191Re: Linux, CrossOver Office, MS Office - Cost, Hardware, Support Orgs & previous implementations.
From: will
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 12:09
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In aus.computers.linux Oliver Bannatyne <KerrynB@shlock.co.nz> wrote: > I am investigating technology solutions on behalf of a small-medium sized > inner-city finance firm. The firm is looking at a number of possible > technology options. At the moment the firm has about 20x Pentium II PC's > running Windows 95, 98, and 2000 and MS Office 95 and 97. The firm is > looking at moving to either stand-alone workstations or thin clients running > linux, and MS Office (by use of Codeweavers CrossOver product -See i'd consider installing a decent server (fast processor, plenty of ram, and plenty of hdd space) with redhat (i'd probably still use rh7.3 at this stage) and staroffice (or openoffice, maybe, which is basically the same thing, but staroffice seems to be a bit more "professional") and use ltsp (linux terminal server project www.ltsp.org) running on the pentium IIs as X terminals. it should certainly be better than what they've got now! will
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