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Can Windows, OS X and Fedora All Work Together?
greymond writes "In my ever growing job responsibilities, I've recently been tasked with documenting our organization's IT infrastructure, primarily focusing on cost analysis of our hardware leases and software purchases. This is something that has never been done in our organization before and while it's moving along slowly, I'm already seeing some places where we could make improvements. Once completed, I see this as an opportunity to bring up the topic of migrating the majority of our office from Windows 7 to Linux and from Exchange to Gmail. However, this would result in three departments each running a different system: Windows, OS X, and most likely Fedora. Has anyone worked in or tried to set up an environment like this? What roadblocks did you run into? Is this really feasible or should I just continue to focus on the cutbacks that don't require OS changes? (The requirement for having three different systems is that the vast majority of our administration, who rely solely on an install of Microsoft Windows, Word and Excel, are savvy enough that if they came in and saw Gnome running on Fedora with Open Office they'd pick it up fast. However, our marketing department is composed entirely of Apple systems, and the latest Adobe Creative Suite doesn't seem to all work under Wine. The biggest issue is with the Sales department though, as they rely on a proprietary sales platform that is Windows only — and generally, sales personal give the biggest push back when it comes to organizational changes.)"
because any mail server is better than exchange?
This is a joke. I am joking. Joke joke joke.
This guy clearly hasn't got a clue. Gmail for companies allows you to use your own domain name. Since he doesn't even bother to look up this most basic thing in choosing an email solution, he clearly hasn't researched beyond "what does MS offer", so how can we then trust anything else he says?
My advice, find someone who actually has used multiple solutions and ask him/her. If you ask a MS shop/fanboy what the solution is, then the answer is going to be MS. You wouldn't ask a ricer about best car would you?
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
There might be others in your organization who do "real work", that don't ever need to access a linux box. Marketing, finance, and even those "low lifes" who sell your product to customers. I suspect that over your firm's entire environment, relatively few need (or even know of) linux kernals. I thing you need to get out of the cube more often.