Re: My Annual Linux Adventure

From: Leythos (void_at_nowhere.org)
Date: 11/10/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:48:34 GMT

In article <cmspu0$i2p$1@lust.ihug.co.nz>, thor@valhalla.bbs.org says...
> Leythos wrote:
>
> > In article <HTRjd.10695$6w6.2889@tornado.tampabay.rr.com>,
> > SrBueno@bueno1.casa.net says...
> >> Leythos wrote:
> >>
> >> > Since I didn't see this make it to the group, I'm reposting it, please
> >> > accept my apology if you're seeing this as a duplicate.
> >> >
> >> I saw it and disregarded it as troll bait. Must have worked since I'm
> >> responding to it.
> >
> > Sorry, I am not a troll, as you could see with a little research, and I
> > do respect the platforms. In fact, you could have snipped the part about
> > my Windows systems being stable and helped me find a good RH distro that
> > I can use with the second part of my post. I could really use help with
> > that. I have about 70 desktop users that would be good candidates for a
> > change to a linux desktop platform, as long as they can run MS Office to
> > maintain compatibility with the rest of the offices and network.
> >
>
> Why not use open office instead

Thanks for the reply - I've installed Open Office on 8 machines and let
users test it for their daily tasks. Most of them only edit existing
word documents or edit old accounting spread-sheets that have already
been created. The import process leaves a little to be desired, some
formatting of Word 2000, XP, 2003 documents is not the same once it
imports it, which was not the case with MS Office. There are some small
formatting issues with Excel files....

I was looking at CrossOver as a means to allow them to run at least
Office XP - they already have Volume licenses for Office and it works
well for everything they do.

The kicker for me, and most of the client groups, is the use of Outlook
with the Exchange servers - almost every one of them needs the Calendar,
delegated calendar, tasks, delegated tasks, and some need to share their
inbox with other users. I tried CrossOver with Outlook 2000 and Outlook
XP, but it would not connect to the Exchange server via the exchange
connector - POP and IMAP connectors worked fine.

Any ideas? I would really like to have them off of Windows XP as long as
I can work out the above issues.

Thanks. 

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