We are a Linux/Unix SW development, service and support company located in Vienna, Austria and we have very good experience in running our office entirely on Linux.
At our place there are currently about 25 Linux systems running, six of them are desktop workstations, the rest are servers, routers and development machines. We have a HP4000 laser printer, ISDN fax modems running together with HylaFax, and a HP ScanJet 4c to import the few remaining pieces of paper at our office.
Our desktop systems are all diskless (this is one of our own products, the "xS+S Diskless Client") and Linux proves to be a very fast, reliable and very easy to use desktop OS!
Before she joined us, our secretary was used to the usual MS software, but quickly and without problem she got used to KDE, StarOffice, Gimp and Netscape (the rest of us were Linux freaks already, so I think we don't count...:-)
We have no compatibility problems with StarOffice and the MS Office world. So far, every Word or Excel document we got from customers we could read quite fine, and if customers insist on getting Word documents back, we'll give them what they want just by "Saving as..." in StarOffice:-)
With the upcoming Linux ports of important software like FrameMaker and CorelDraw I think Linux will be a very interesting alternative desktop OS for even a more wider range of users (not just technical, but all the typical office users out there!), and even more when running on Diskless Clients:-)
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We are a Linux/Unix SW development, service and support company located in Vienna, Austria and we have very good experience in running our office entirely on Linux.
At our place there are currently about 25 Linux systems running, six of them are desktop workstations, the rest are servers, routers and development machines. We have a HP4000 laser printer, ISDN fax modems running together with HylaFax, and a HP ScanJet 4c to import the few remaining pieces of paper at our office.
Our desktop systems are all diskless (this is one of our own products, the "xS+S Diskless Client") and Linux proves to be a very fast, reliable and very easy to use desktop OS!
Before she joined us, our secretary was used to the usual MS software, but quickly and without problem she got used to KDE, StarOffice, Gimp and Netscape (the rest of us were Linux freaks already, so I think we don't count... :-)
We have no compatibility problems with StarOffice and the MS Office world. So far, every Word or Excel document we got from customers we could read quite fine, and if customers insist on getting Word documents back, we'll give them what they want just by "Saving as..." in StarOffice :-)
With the upcoming Linux ports of important software like FrameMaker and CorelDraw I think Linux will be a very interesting alternative desktop OS for even a more wider range of users (not just technical, but all the typical office users out there!), and even more when running on Diskless Clients :-)
HTHAndreas
http://www.xss.co.at/