Re: [silk] Migrating an organization to FLOSS

2009-01-21 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: Invest in automating the installation. Have someone figure out how things like cfengine could be used to do automated installations. If the desktops and laptops your company is using are diverse, expect more troubles. Uniformity

[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: