John, I guess it must be really difficult to approve the purchase of something at £0 as opposed to purchasing something at £300 <BG>.
The only problems I've found are with fairly complicated word documents which sometimes get a little screwed up when looking at them in Word, but I must admit it is a very, very, very small percentage. Personally I'd plump for a Windows 2K system or even 98 which you will be able to puck up licenses for very cheap if not free with refurbished machines (eg 1.8Ghx 40Gb, 256Mb RAM drive HP machine Inc Win2K licence for £50 +vat from our local second user disposal store) and subsequently reduce the cost considerably. Put the point that they are also aiding in recycling older equipment - does any of the users actually NEED a new high spec machine - I guess not. If they take your advice then all well and good, but in my experience charities (some of them anyway) are more prone to needlessly spend money than commercial businesses - as they say, easy come, easy go. Best of luck. Dave Crozier -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Weller Sent: 24 January 2007 12:43 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: [NF] XP- Home or Pro I have been asked to help a local charity. They are replacing their existing network (Win 98) with four machines which will be networked as a peer-to-peer workgroup. They will not be doing anything fancy, just normal office type work; accounts (Sage), word processing, etc. The requirement has gone out to tender without a detailed spec and with a request for the suppliers to recommend a suitable system. They are getting some responses specifying XP Home and others XP Pro. I know that XP Home has some limitations compared with Pro, for instance it cannot join a domain. Are there any other limitations which would impact them? I'd be grateful for any comments. I've suggested that they use Open Office rather than pay M$ for 4 Office licences but am getting some resistance from people who have never heard of it (not users incidentally but committee members who will have to approve the purchase). Are there any limitations of Open Office compared to M$ Office? I've not found any but, again, would be grateful for comments from anyone who has more experience of OO. TIA John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
