Re: [expert] Mandrake in the enterprise

2001-12-20 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 09:10 pm, Hoyt Duff wrote: On Wednesday 19 December 2001 08:42 pm, you wrote: And so it goes... the problem isn't with the office suites, it's the specialized apps that are going to give you troubles. Which is why Win4Lin is busy developing its application

Re: [expert] Mandrake in the enterprise

2001-12-20 Thread Ken Hawkins
Hey, I can dig out that old Altair that's been propping up the corner of the wood shed for the last decade Ken Carroll Grigsby wrote: Hoyt: I took a look at the Netraverse page. If I read it right, the idea is that this server will connect a bunch of desktops to application servers,

Re: [expert] Mandrake in the enterprise

2001-12-20 Thread Scott
Thank you Carroll for your response. I think the desktop is being looked at closely and I am happy to say that other than a specialized accounting package all of the other software we use is not Windows specific. Most of the apps used here are in the process of being ported to the web.

Re: [expert] Mandrake in the enterprise way OT now, and old topic too

2001-12-20 Thread Ed Tharp
On Thursday 20 December 2001 13:07, you wrote: Hey, I can dig out that old Altair that's been propping up the corner of the wood shed for the last decade Ken damn, you got any memory that will fit? (I might have some here some where. I think a 2.5 meg piece) Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] Mandrake in the enterprise

2001-12-20 Thread Matt . Carpenter
: Sent by: Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake in the enterprise expert-owner@linux-ma ndrake.com

Re: [expert] Mandrake in the enterprise

2001-12-20 Thread Michael Viron
It might help us if you defined what you mean by 'heavy loads' -- do you mean heavy loads as regards to network traffic? heavy loads as regards web site hits? Just a thought, Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners,

Re: [expert] Mandrake in the enterprise way OT now, and old topic too

2001-12-20 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 20 December 2001 01:27 pm, Ed Tharp wrote: On Thursday 20 December 2001 13:07, you wrote: Hey, I can dig out that old Altair that's been propping up the corner of the wood shed for the last decade Ken damn, you got any memory that will fit? (I might have some here some

Re: [expert] Mandrake in the enterprise

2001-12-19 Thread Scott
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: Scott, what kind of problems are you running into with mandrake as a desktop workstation? I use it everyday for that very thing and find it a breath of fresh air as my supervisor is forced to reboot his windows machine 3 or 4 times a day in order

RE: [expert] Mandrake in the enterprise

2001-12-19 Thread Scott
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Franki wrote: Think of mandrake as red hat on steriods.. we use mandrake for everything from web servers, dns servers, proxy servers, and mail servers, and the latter is done with virus scanning of all email going in and out and fairly interesting spam removal stuff...

Re: [expert] Mandrake in the enterprise

2001-12-19 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 09:16 pm, Scott wrote: Hi everyone- I really respect the opinions of those on the list, so I will ask the million dollar question. Do you think Mandrake is ready for the Enterprise? I work for a large company in the US that is considering Linux for not only the

Re: [expert] Mandrake in the enterprise

2001-12-19 Thread Hoyt Duff
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 08:42 pm, you wrote: And so it goes... the problem isn't with the office suites, it's the specialized apps that are going to give you troubles. Which is why Win4Lin is busy developing its application server Tarantella that is supposed to deliver any app from any

[expert] Mandrake in the enterprise

2001-12-18 Thread Scott
Hi everyone- I really respect the opinions of those on the list, so I will ask the million dollar question. Do you think Mandrake is ready for the Enterprise? I work for a large company in the US that is considering Linux for not only the servers, but the desktop in the future. They have

Re: [expert] Mandrake in the enterprise

2001-12-18 Thread Mark Weaver
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 21:16:00 -0500 (EST) Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Hi everyone- I really respect the opinions of those on the list, so I will ask the million dollar question. Do you think Mandrake is ready for the Enterprise? I work for a large

RE: [expert] Mandrake in the enterprise

2001-12-18 Thread Franki
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Mandrake in the enterprise Hi everyone- I really respect the opinions of those on the list, so I will ask the million dollar question. Do you think Mandrake is ready for the Enterprise? I work for a large company in the US that is considering Linux for not only

Re: [expert] Mandrake in the enterprise

2001-12-18 Thread Salvatore Enrico Indiogine
Greetings: In my previous job working at an electrical utility we ran Mandrake Linux and RedHat Linux on workstations. They were specialized workstations used as clients to display Motif GUIs from AIX servers. Once these computers were installed and configured correctly we had zero problems.

Re: [expert] Mandrake in the enterprise

2001-12-18 Thread James Sparenberg
Scott, Numbers may help in this area also. If you go to http://www.cyber.com.au/ on the right hand side of the main page you will see an article titled linux vs windows price comparison. A fairly comprehensive pdf that details the costs in both initial switch from windows to linux, as well