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On Tuesday 05 March 2002 18:13, you wrote:
On 05-Mar-2002 at 16:07:30 MATTHEW BROWNING wrote:It is both humbling and informative to stand corrected, but I hardly think that one example disproves the rule.
Yes, I agree and it was a bit over the top. There are, however, other examples
Penwith Council SUN, X-terminals City of Largo FL Linux, X-terminals Scottish Central police - Windows desktop, but Star Office. IE not MS. English Police central technology assessment currently under way of replacing desktop with Linux. Strakan Pharmaceuticals - Linux servers, mail and _some_ desktops with Soffice replacing the previously used MSOffice, or being first option. Habitat - AS400 Going to work for the council, or to bash figures into a Police computer terminal is not exactly abstruse employment. Anyway, few people have learnt to use Windows, or anything of note about it. What they have learnt is how to use MS Word, MS Excel in a few cases, and a three pane email system that may or may not have diarying functions, but probably doesn't have them in use due to the unreliability of the Exchange server _in average use_ . Now, actually what they have learnt is a few applications and some familiarity with the interface produced by Xerox at Palo Alto in the 70s, advanced by Apple, Acorn and ... others ... and now to be found on video recorders, TVs and whatever. Show many people a KDE desktop and they'll be polite about your colour scheme, and then get on with simple word processing and answering mail on Soffice or KWrite (or Windows 3.11 Write under WINE) and only barely notice that they are on a slightly different GUI. "is this that new XP?" "Yes, it is an operating system chosen because of our eXPerience with early versions of Windows" -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.