[TriLUG] Announcement: New NCSU Linux Users Group Forming

[Meyer, David R]

I work for a large software manufacturer in our engineering group.  I am
just finishing up a project to migrate approxmiately 75 desktops from
Windows to Linux.  This is a pilot.  Once it proves its worth, we'll
move all of our engineers world-wide to it.

I have spend (part-time) two months working on this, but should start
the conversion by September 1st.  I'm using Red Hat 8.0 for the desktop
(because our anti-virus product doesn't support 9.0 yet) but and
OpenOffice for the productivity suite.  Evolution for the email with the
connector to talk to our exchange server.  I'm also using an NTLM script
that fakes out our internal sites.

With the exception of three of us, nobody in my group uses Linux on the
desktop, so we're making it as friendly as we can...but they will have
to learn something...that is part of the exercise.

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Heavlin, Lee [mailto:LHeavlin at pbmgraphics.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 11:26 AM
To: 'trilug at trilug.org'
Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Announcement: New NCSU Linux Users Group Forming


I concur in your observation.  I support 250 Windows desktops and want
to move them to Linux.  But, before I can do this I have to find a way
to make the desktop easy for users.  I migrated my company from DOS to
Windows.  The desktop interface made the conversion easier.  Windows is
what make M$ take off.  I write documentation, but many users are
"visual" and want no part of a command line.