Check out phpgroupware. It is really amazing. I put up a demo at http://alaya.net/gw It does much more than just group calendaring as well (although many of these functions are not enabled in the demo)
I agree with you about the importance of MS Access. It is an excellent tool. In fact I would even argue that the position you describe with respect to Access really also applies to Excel since anyone who really uses Excel heavily is likely to find something essential missing from StarCalc and the other open source spreadsheets.
For the reasons above I was highly interested in the Adabas database in the release of StarOffice 5.2 yet I was quickly disappointed with it. And now I don't see it included at all with Openoffice.org 1.0.
While we are on the topic there is another application very popular in accounting/finance that again really has no equivalent in open-source: Quickbooks Pro.
For me the federal settlement with MS was so disappointing because I was really hoping to see a forced breakup and a new office software company with an interest in making its product work with as many platforms as possible (MS's line about "consumer choice" is complete BS).
Funny that this aspect of their business is not looked at in more detail...
i love phpgroupware. it not only does calendaring. you can check out a demo site i put up at http://alaya.net/gw
note that this demo shows only a small portion of all the available applications that can be used
Hi, I did not do a migration specifically, but I did support a company of over 200 desktop Linux users including creating and maintaining the build that was used and developing the support infrastructure.
Since Linux offers vastly more options in terms of administration and management of a large deployment of workstations I think you are clearly making the right choice, well beyond the mere savings in software cost.
My finding was that there are several key things which make the transition work: providing users with a stable system with an ergonomic graphical interface (such as KDE), providing good tools to match those that users would expect, laying out policy from the top-level down about acceptable document formats and standards to be used (this is *extremely* important since one Microsoft user can try to force a whole department to switch to his standard therefore policy *has* to be set about document and other formats), and finally spreading the good news about open-source and conveying to users a sense of enthusiasm that they are participating in an important revolution.
Finally, I can say it amazed me when I say people who were not particularly technically adept and had never used anything other than Windows working with Linux with complete and total ease. On the other side there will always be the "picky" user who perceives the switch away from the software they are used to as an imposition. I found that patience and spending extra time with such people could eventually win them over and instill in them the same enthusiasm for open-source that many share.
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Check out phpgroupware. It is really amazing. I put up a demo at http://alaya.net/gw It does much more than just group calendaring as well (although many of these functions are not enabled in the demo) I agree with you about the importance of MS Access. It is an excellent tool. In fact I would even argue that the position you describe with respect to Access really also applies to Excel since anyone who really uses Excel heavily is likely to find something essential missing from StarCalc and the other open source spreadsheets. For the reasons above I was highly interested in the Adabas database in the release of StarOffice 5.2 yet I was quickly disappointed with it. And now I don't see it included at all with Openoffice.org 1.0. While we are on the topic there is another application very popular in accounting/finance that again really has no equivalent in open-source: Quickbooks Pro. For me the federal settlement with MS was so disappointing because I was really hoping to see a forced breakup and a new office software company with an interest in making its product work with as many platforms as possible (MS's line about "consumer choice" is complete BS). Funny that this aspect of their business is not looked at in more detail...
i love phpgroupware. it not only does calendaring. you can check out a demo site i put up at http://alaya.net/gw note that this demo shows only a small portion of all the available applications that can be used
Hi, I did not do a migration specifically, but I did support a company of
over 200 desktop Linux users including creating and maintaining the build
that was used and developing the support infrastructure.
Since Linux offers vastly more options in terms of administration and
management of a large deployment of workstations I think you are clearly
making the right choice, well beyond the mere savings in software cost.
My finding was that there are several key things which make the transition
work: providing users with a stable system with an ergonomic graphical
interface (such as KDE), providing good tools to match those that users
would expect, laying out policy from the top-level down about acceptable
document formats and standards to be used (this is *extremely* important
since one Microsoft user can try to force a whole department to switch to
his standard therefore policy *has* to be set about document and other
formats), and finally spreading the good news about open-source and
conveying to users a sense of enthusiasm that they are participating in an
important revolution.
Finally, I can say it amazed me when I say people who were not particularly technically adept and had never used anything other than Windows working with Linux with complete and total ease.
On the other side there will always be the "picky" user who perceives the switch away from the software they are used to as an imposition. I found that patience and spending extra time with such people could eventually win them over and instill in them the same enthusiasm for open-source that many share.