Re: [newbie] OT: Pre-migration strategies: Win2K - LM

2002-06-15 Thread Warren Post
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 14:40, shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 14 June 2002 12:36 pm, Warren Post did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Short of changing the OS, however, I've been given carte blanche to improve the system. What should I be

Re: [newbie] OT: Pre-migration strategies: Win2K - LM

2002-06-15 Thread Warren Post
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 14:07, Joshua James wrote: At least if you switch to OpenOffice you'll save a ton of money on licensing. US$10,625 is what we saved by not buying 25 licenses for MS Office... and after a couple of days of help, MS Office users prefer OpenOffice. The cost savings are what

Re: [newbie] OT: Pre-migration strategies: Win2K - LM

2002-06-15 Thread FemmeFatale
Warren Post wrote: Users will also find something familiar when you switch them to linux down the road. Yes, this is _really_ important to users. The Windows/MS Office/MSIE users I've shown Linux to like it but don't see it as anything practical, because they don't see their favorite

Re: [newbie] OT: Pre-migration strategies: Win2K - LM

2002-06-15 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 June 2002 02:16 pm, FemmeFatale did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Now help me convince my g/f ;p can't be done, g/fs are beyond reason by definition. ;) - -- My job is bring comfort to the disturbed, and disturb the

Re: [newbie] OT: Pre-migration strategies: Win2K - LM

2002-06-15 Thread Mark Van Bruggen
On 16/06/2002, shane did utter into the folds of space: On Saturday 15 June 2002 02:16 pm, FemmeFatale did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Now help me convince my g/f ;p can't be done, g/fs are beyond reason by definition. ;) A bumper sticker I have seen: If it has

[newbie] OT: Pre-migration strategies: Win2K - LM

2002-06-14 Thread Warren Post
This is a little off topic, so if there's a better forum for my question just point me to it. I have a client with a Windows 2000 LAN. Someday I'll finally convince management to migrate to Linux Mandrake, but today's not the day. Short of changing the OS, however, I've been given carte blanche

Re: [newbie] OT: Pre-migration strategies: Win2K - LM

2002-06-14 Thread Joshua James
At least if you switch to OpenOffice you'll save a ton of money on licensing. Users will also find something familiar when you switch them to linux down the road. I'm in the same place as you. I really do like Win2k/XP but I'm trying to switch to Mandrake. That way down the road I'll have enough

Re: [newbie] OT: Pre-migration strategies: Win2K - LM

2002-06-14 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 14 June 2002 12:36 pm, Warren Post did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Short of changing the OS, however, I've been given carte blanche to improve the system. What should I be doing now to insure that a future migration to LM

Re: [newbie] OT: Pre-migration strategies: Win2K - LM

2002-06-14 Thread robin
Warren Post wrote: This is a little off topic, so if there's a better forum for my question just point me to it. I have a client with a Windows 2000 LAN. Someday I'll finally convince management to migrate to Linux Mandrake, but today's not the day. Short of changing the OS, however, I've been

Re: [newbie] OT: Pre-migration strategies: Win2K - LM

2002-06-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 14 Jun 2002 13:36:27 -0600, Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a little off topic, so if there's a better forum for my question just point me to it. I have a client with a Windows 2000 LAN. Someday I'll finally convince management to migrate to Linux Mandrake, but today's not

RE: [newbie] OT: Pre-migration strategies: Win2K - LM

2002-06-14 Thread Franki
. (and you can change the icon to match IE if you want.) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: Saturday, 15 June 2002 12:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: Pre-migration strategies: Win2K