Randy...I just read the first few sentences of that article and knew i had to respond. I work for a good size company (5000 or so users) and will tell you that not all of them are secretaries who use word, excel spreadsheets and the like. I also think it is condescending to subrscribe to that articles implied knowledge that "secretaries are dumb, so secretaries would not know the difference" I am an experienced windows user/professional desktop supporter and I have trouble with the basic functionality of linux. I can only imagine what it would be like to be desktop support for such an O/S. I wouldn't know where to begin let alone be a new user to all the programs that linux offers. I am here to learn the O/S, not how to create a spreadsheet in Koffice. Do you know how to do that with absolute proficientcy? Why expect your users to do so when they are the ones making million dollar investments so your comapany makes money and can pay you your salary? In mine line of work, the end user is the my money maker. Keep them in business and I get paid. Enable them to do what they do best is my job. Thier downtime hurts business. I work for them, no the other way around. That is not to say that linux is not right to rollout comapny-wide. It takes time, patience and knowledge. Could you imagine rendering a company useless to perfor high dollar trades on wall street becuase they couldn't recreate their all important calculates with Koffice? In my book the customers are all important. i work for no moron, no idiot, an no I D 10 T. I support a business and the people who run that business no mater what their "staus" Now mind you, I want to learn this O/S as well as I know windows. Challanges intrigue me. But, as a newbie, I must concede with Mark that On Thursday 06 September 2001 16:57, Randy Donohoe wrote: > > The sysadmin's words haunt me as I think about how to deploy a linux > > desktop environment for say a typical business dept. Does a linux > > desktop meet the usability requirements of a typcial user (as opposed > > to typical linux sysadmin/programmer). > > This should answer most of your questions. > http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/08/10/1441239 > > Randy Donohoe ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include <wisdom.h> void ignorance (it offers no value)
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