____/ Tattoo Vampire on Sunday 24 February 2008 18:36 : \____
> As I mentioned in another thread, I recently took a new position as
> advertising and technology director for a local realtor who operates three
> offices in the area.
>
> After getting acclimated I started to look at what I had to deal with... a
> motley assortment of old and new XP desktops and laptops, all with a host of
> issues due to not being patched or otherwise maintained properly.
>
> The easiest thing for me to do is get rid of Windows throughout the entire
> company. My replacement OS of choice? PCLinuxOS. The *only* Windows
> application we can't do without is IE, since Crest, our web-based user
> administration system, rather stupidly wants IE only. Thanks to a post in
> another thread, I learned about IEs4Linux, so this will be my solution for
> the office managers and myself when we need to login to Crest.
>
> There is one more Windows application I must use... it doesn't work via Wine
> but VMWare Workstation handles it just fine on the infrequent occasions I
> need to run it.
>
> The only major headache is going to be getting 42 people trained, but far
> better to do this than deal with the current Windows mess.
>
> The owners were ready to purchase new machines and "upgrade" to Vista, and
> they are very happy to learn this won't be necessary as their former
> so-called IT person told them.
For the Windows-only application, perhaps you could set up one Windows PC to
which everyone can log in remotely from Linux?
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