[ILUG] Interesting article

[Kevin Philp]

I would be interested in other peoples small company experience, what problems 
they have, people migrating from MS, what trips new users up? MS users don't 
understand permissions on files. OpenOffice....a big big issue, laptops. etc. 
etc.

Kevin.


On Thursday 28 April 2005 18:50, Philip Trickett (List) wrote:
>On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 17:48 +0100, Kevin Philp wrote:
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>> As we are a small company that does use Linux on desktops and servers I
>> have noticed several things about my fellow small companies:
>
>Might it be worthwhile getting together an ISCLUG?
>
>We use linux heavily in house as well, but there are a couple of
>'legacy' windows machines.
>
>I know that I would be interested in meeting other people from small
>companies, heck, even large companies with practical experience with
>using linux in a business, so that what we do can be streamlined and
>made more efficient.
>There must be plenty of people in business out there who have problems
>ranging from why word documents don't always import well into
>OpenOffice, to how do I set up an intranet server.
>
>I see an opening for consulting services in some of these areas, but I'd
>quite like to get together with other people trying to accomplish the
>samething as me.
>
>I think that this would also remove alot of the FUD factor that is
>bandied about when companies talk about switching to linux.
>
>> Kevin.
>
>Phil