[TriLUG] Outline for proposed Linux for Business presentation.

[Janyne Kizer]

"Andrew C. Oliver" wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 01:30, Jon Carnes wrote:
> > On Sunday 13 January 2002 22:39, you wrote:
> > >
> > > Ont the length, I'm agree in principal but I'm not entirely sure we can
> > > cover a great deal in 2 hours.  Perhaps we should consider 2 separate
> > > sessions instead of one.  Divide it up into IT-infrastructure and
> > > Applications Development and Productivity.
> >
> > Hmmm, I had not thought of doing a speil on Applications Development.... I
> > can see why that might be attractive as well.
> >
> > My focus has been infrastructure.  The savings for using Linux on the
> > back-end of a corporation are easy to see.  I think our focus would need to
> > depend on the audience... We might find them more receptive on the clearly
> > tanagable savings that come with using Linux in the Infrastructure:
> > Firewalls, Mailservers, FTP hosts, Webservers, Fileservers, Printservers,
> > Routers, and Network monitoring.
> >
> 
> In the past, in my experience, I've gotten a bit of "thats all good and
> well but what of our ASP pages."

Perhaps talk about the strengths of JSP?


> >
> > Well this depends on our audience.  I don't envision an audience that is
> > looking to move 100% over to Linux, so we really don't have to replace all
> > productivity tools with Linux alternatives.  It should be enough that the
> > applications can be hosted easily on Linux servers and the apps will still
> > work fine on their Windows Workstations.
> 
> With the new and more costly Office licensing and press that
> Star/OpenOffice(.org) have been getting, I would suggest we do cover it
> along with the cost savings.  This might even make a good tie in with
> say Flowe Desktop for instance.

The problem that I am running into with StarOffice is the lack of WPD
filters (we were going from WP for Unix -> M$ Office but now we are
going WP Office -> StarOffice).  Any suggestions on WPD filters?

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