[silk] Migrating an organization to FLOSS

2009-01-20 Thread Gautam John
So I've been using Ubuntu on my machine at work and the team I manage all use Ubuntu - the rest of the organization seems to wonder why I never have virus problems and have seen that the basics an office computer requires, browser + office suite, is available on Ubuntu and we're considering

Re: [silk] Migrating an organization to FLOSS

2009-01-20 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote: So I've been using Ubuntu on my machine at work and the team I manage all use Ubuntu - the rest of the organization seems to wonder why I never have virus problems and have seen that the basics an office computer requires,

Re: [silk] Migrating an organization to FLOSS

2009-01-20 Thread Gautam John
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com wrote: You could ask on the ubuntu-india mailing list(s) to begin with. There are the standard manuals/guides on System Deployment and stuff on the ubuntu wiki, but you probably have been there. I have

Re: [silk] Migrating an organization to FLOSS

2009-01-20 Thread Indranil Das Gupta
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com wrote: You could ask on the ubuntu-india mailing list(s) to begin with. There are the standard manuals/guides on System Deployment

Re: [silk] Migrating an organization to FLOSS

2009-01-20 Thread Gautam John
Thanks Indranil. The biggest stumbling block I've seen in the desktop migrations I have done are : a) MS Excel spreadsheets with macros and use of collaborative workgroup features Don't use that much - we're a small non-profit. b) Peripherals - Scanners / Some of the printers / some

Re: [silk] Migrating an organization to FLOSS

2009-01-20 Thread Raj Shekhar
Gautam John wrote: Would anyone have advice? A manual? Guidelines? If you are in Delhi or NCR region, get onto the Delhi LUG mailing list and post your question there. Most likely, you will be get a response from Sudev Brar, who was instrumental in moving his entire company to Linux. He

Re: [silk] Migrating an organization to FLOSS

2009-01-20 Thread Indranil Das Gupta
Hi Gautam, On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote: d) Intranet sites that use ActiveX control or EOT web fonts No to the first but yes to the second. As in, we do a lot of indic language content work. Moving towards Unicode and OTF along with the Web Fonts in

Re: [silk] Migrating an organization to FLOSS

2009-01-20 Thread Gautam John
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Raj Shekhar spa...@rajshekhar.net wrote: If you are in Delhi or NCR region, get onto the Delhi LUG mailing list and I'm in Bangalore but I will mail them to see what advice I can get. Thanks! -- Please read our new blog at: http://blog.prathambooks.org

Re: [silk] Migrating an organization to FLOSS

2009-01-20 Thread Gautam John
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Indranil Das Gupta indr...@gmail.com wrote: What about running Tally in a Virtual Box? multi-user version or standalone single user? Multi, unfortunately. But can the server be on an XP box and the clients on a virtual box? -- Please read our new blog at: