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Oliver Bannatyne 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
> http://www.codeweavers.com/products/office/ and
> http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxofficeserver/.). The workstations will
> be upgraded, but only if they need to be.
> 
> I am trying to ascertain what is possible, and whether a (thick/thin client)
> linux (running CrossOver Office and MS Office) is robust enough in an
> commercial environment for use by this financial firm. I am unsure of the
> hardware requirements and the coverage of technical support available for
> such a setup. (Note: the firm does not have dedicated IT staff.) To further
> this goal, I am looking for any organisations that have implemented any
> similar system in New Zealand, Australia and other parts of the world.

They'd be better off to use Open Office primarily and only use MS Office 
where they had a proven file compatibility issue.

I have Crossover Offcie installed here. It supports Word, Excel and 
Powerpoint. Iy was only installed 3 days ago,so we haven't got a proven 
track record for reliability.

It also supports MS IE 5.5.

All of the above seem to work very well on a PIII-450 with 256MB RAM and 
Red Hat 8.0.

But I haven't got much to go on so far.