Re: What kins of business use Linux?

[Todd And Margo Chester]

On 04/20/2011 01:04 AM, Lukas Press wrote: I worked in civil engineering consultancy for the best part of ten years and although everyone used windows I always thought the business was ripe for conversion to linux/FOSS.   We used various specialist applications pretty much round the clock, particularly CAD, and any reduction in the regular "server down for maintenence" periods would have been most welcome to a project manager like me, and presumably to the bean counters as well.  I would imagine the same goes for the architects, environmental consultants, structural and M&E engineers I worked with too, as all worked in a similar way.   FOSS alternatives to the industry standard proprietary CAD & GIS solutions were criminally overlooked too imo – limited numbers of floating proprietary software licences to serve a large pool of users created a constant practical problem.   Chris Hi Chris, What CAD software are you running on Linux.  Targeting business that run that CAD may prove fruitful! Many thanks, -T