On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 23:48 -0900, John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 26 February 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
This will probably spark some debates, but can someone point me to some information that I can use to successfully challenge out IT department concerning moving some Windows driven services to Linux (file, print and email/collaboration).
An anti-FUD cheat-sheet if you like.
The only part of that debate you can't easily win is the much vaunted "collaboration" services.
Everything else, Linux exceeds windows capability in so many ways that name them becomes tedious
Samba is better at file and print sharing than is windows itself.
Collaboration is a code word for Outlook and exchange server. Some office droids live in Office. They think it IS what computers are. I know some who simply don't know how to run their computer if they can't get office to work. Its how they launch every other application they use.
Until there is a foss Exchange that works well, I'd let them have that point.
Agreed, especially with a MS Portal running aswell - this thing integrates into every part of Office - very difficult to argue against (except price maybe, but we have a Site License so everything is Free, yes those words were actually uttered to me not so long ago, thats why Im on the war path!) For Exchange/Collaboration replacement Im looking into Scalix - seems capable? E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org