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Linux has distros which require little training
The Ernie Ball Guitar string company is a pretty large company that switched from MS to Linux.

They only needed one Windows PC for the Accountant. The rest just switched from MS Office to OpenOffice.

They interviewed the President and asked about the time and cost to switch. He stated that using cloning tools they had the company switched over in a long weekend and that it took only one day for the users to be able to use OpenOffice.

Their cost went down dramatically even the 1st quarter.

They asked him if it was hard for him to change, he stated that he is almost computer illiterate and after 2 days he forgot they changed systems.

This was like 2 years ago. The Linux distros have dramatically improved since then.

Ubuntu Linux is a wonder. When I slide the hard drive draw out for Linux and slide in the drawer for Windows my heart sinks because I know I am going to an inferior system.

Thankfully I only have to run Windows for about 20% of the time when doing advanced macro work in Excel. Also QuickBooks doesn't have a alternate Linux prog yet.
Posted by: slim-01   Posted on: 09/05/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Funny  Boot_Agnostic | 09/05/06
Ironic isn't it?  Shelendrea | 09/05/06
Not a first for CA  nucrash | 09/05/06
True enough  Shelendrea | 09/05/06
not unusual...  Suzi_z | 09/06/06
I don't know...  Linux User 147560 | 09/05/06
Not surprising...  Linux User 1 | 09/05/06
Really?  Linux User 147560 | 09/05/06
Sounds like the program worked fine  DarthRidiculous | 09/05/06
I agree  will.doak@... | 09/05/06
sure am glad i don't use CA....  JoeMama_z | 09/05/06
Shows a lack of testing on their target systems  barsteward | 09/05/06
This is exactly the problem  www.cybertopcops.com | 09/05/06
Let's me see  slim-01 | 09/05/06
not in the real world  ChazzMatt | 09/05/06
Linux has distros which require little training  slim-01 | 09/05/06
Also QuickBooks doesn't have a alternate Linux prog yet.  swoopee | 09/05/06
I actually found one this morning  slim-01 | 09/05/06
accounting software for linux  fencer | 09/05/06
two simple points  michael_t | 09/05/06
Baffled  Pelligrew | 09/05/06
The only place you will find that alt OSs are insecure is  slim-01 | 09/06/06
I agree completly  devlin_X | 09/06/06
It possibly correctly ( happy ) identified the culprit  michael_t | 09/05/06
Hi Priority for CA: Quality and Lab Testing  Grayson Peddie | 09/05/06
RE: Hi Priority for CA: Quality and Lab Testing  jerang@... | 05/20/08
But how good is it  Boot_Agnostic | 09/06/06
I'm surprised it didn't delete the entire Windows directory  slim-01 | 09/06/06
Oh well,  Boot_Agnostic | 09/08/06

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