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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.

The only iffy part is Outlook and Access, however, since most users don't 
use Access and there are already adequte replacements for Outlook, 
Crossover does a pretty good job.

Matthew Gardiner
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