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 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net