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Article #193Re: Linux, CrossOver Office, MS Office - Cost, Hardware, Support Orgs & previous implementations.
From: Thing
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 18:05
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 18:05
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will@xxxx.swaggie.net wrote: > 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 For 20 ppl for file sharing you dont need a high spec. Probably 256 meg of ram and the slowest p3/p4 out there. Even AMD but make sure the server case is designed to be a server. In fact recycling an existing P2 with new PSU and cpu fan should be enough. regards Thing
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