On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:22:00 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> As someone who works as a systems administrator for a company that runs
> pretty much all Microsoft products (including Terminal Server 2000 and
> Citrix Metaframe XPe), and also as someone playing around with LTSP at home
> (and researching where it might fit in well for here at work), I have a few
> comments and suggestions.

[long but thoughtful email snipped]

As you say, you need a number of strands to a MS replacement strategy. 
At the infrastructure level, you need to start getting Samba in place of MS file & 
print, Apache instead of IIS, etc. The business case shouldn't be too hard.

You need to start migrating corporate apps (PeopleSoft, SAP, etc) away from 
client-server to web browser (most software vendors are doing this anyway)

At the desktop level, you need to do 80:20. Maybe 80% of your users do nothing Office, 
Outlook, Intranet / broswer apps. Fine, give them StarOffice / OpenOffice.org and 
Evolution (as a first step - when you get rid of the Exchange servers you can move to 
a Sylpheed) plus Mozilla.

For the remaining 20%, you need to create an MS Ghetto. Win4Lin is a good tool for 
this - runs all your legacy win 9x apps; closes the door to future versions. Put the 
onus on people wanting to run MS apps to justify the full cost of the ghetto 
infrastructure.

I could go on all night...

John

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