Migrating Your Office from Windows to Linux?

Posted by Cliff on Friday May 17, 2002 @06:17AM from the thanks-for-the-new-licensing-scheme-Bill dept.

bastiji asks: "I work at a mid-sized company, around 50 people and 90% M$ shop (10% being the Sun server doing our backups). Most of my users are using Office 85% of the time with some specialized apps thrown in for good measure. With the upcoming licensing changes from M$ my finance guys are worried about increased spending on even the software that we already own. I've been to told to look for alternatives and I'm asking for your help. How does one begin to do migration from a totally dependent M$ shop to the least expensive options. Are there any examples for mid-sized firms taking this route and any public examples of cost-savings?"

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Re:Move away from Windows or just Office? by EllisDees · 2002-05-17 07:03 · Score: 1, Flamebait

most of these people took years just to "learn" Windows, Linux (or whatever) is going to be a nightmare for them.

Yeah, instead of pointing and clicking on windows, they might have to learn how to point and click on linux. What a nightmare.

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