---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [newbie] Choosing flavors and Window Managers Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 15:51:52 -0500 From: Randy Donohoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: jennifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thursday 06 September 2001 22:38, you wrote: > 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 If you read the entire article you'll find the entire city staff uses KDE under Linux. They also use a lot more than Koffice. The article is not condescending in any way. They're not saying that secretaries wouldn't know the difference, they're saying they don't need to know the difference. Using thin clients accessing the server administered by just two techs, they just need to know the desktop and applications. You have to know that with any OS and these workers are happy with Linux. As far as Wall Street goes, IBM zSeries mainframes operate portions of both the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. Read the entire article, it's a good piece. Randy Donohoe -------------------------------------------------------
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