On Sunday 13 November 2005 06:21 pm, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
Don't try to get the average secratary to try Linux. It's not ready for that kind of use. We need to get the technically able people to use it. College students, systems administrators, etc.
That's where you are wrong. The average secretary types, mails, schedules, emails, etc. They don't fiddle around with industry specific packages, such as medical billing, or inventory, or physical hardware control software like machine control, etc where the package exists only for windows. Secretaries and desk jockies are the PERFECT environment for linux. You can put it there, and expect them not to get viruses in their first 5 emails, and keep them from installing any package that they encounter on the net. The tools in SuSE are perfectly suited for this kind of person. But that goddamed $90,000 practice management software that the doctors office uses will keep the whole place on windows. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen