It sounds like a great idea. As a side note, however, the most important issue here is support. If you or someone who understands the OS and apps well will be in daily contact with these people, then recommend away. However, if these people are stuck with a faulty linux based system and support is slow, it'll be a bad name for linux and a bad name for the guy who recommended it. Even if the linux system is more stable than its windows counterpart; they won't see that, they'll only see a system that is broken and isn't getting fixed quickly.
To sway management, I'd recommend setting up linux and apps and getting one of the non-tech types to sit down and see how well he/she performs. Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Ryan Byrd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 11:08 AM Subject: [uug] office replacement for Windows > Ok, lets the company I work for is going to open a new office. There will be 5 > cubicles in that new office. Each cube will have its own computer and they will > share a printer. The office is supplied with a DSL connection. Each cube will > need email, internet browsing, word processing (.doc), spreadsheeting (excel > sheets), and presentations(powerpoint). (It is a non-technical division (human > resources) of the company.) > > As I do not use linux for my desktop, which of the available window managers > most closely replicates Microsoft Windows and is the most stable? > > Which opensource program most closely replicates the Microsoft Office Suite? > > In your opinion, would it be wise for me to recommend buying OS-less PCs for the > new office and setting up linux on all of them? Could non-technical people cope > with not having Windows? > > ideas? > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
