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On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 10:23 +0000, Robin Cornelius wrote: > I started off enquirys in this kind of area 12 months ago What did you come up with? > I wouldn't focus on just "medium" that has a specific meaning in > general you should look at SMEs (small to medium size enterprises). > Small is 0-49, Medium is 50-249. Typical Business link type > definitions. Fair enough. I mean small. It's a question of who might be most interested and the numbers of businesses - how best to make inroads. > What do you want to actually show? Would it not be better to have > presentations of case studies from people who have deployed such > systems. This is the kind of thing i have seen at Business Link > Seminars in the past. How have they been received? > No reason why live servers etc could not be > demonstrated but to Joe Business Owner, a pile of servers is not > interesting at all. They want to know what it does(and in some cases > they don't care about this either) and how it benefits them. Fair enough. I don't know what Joe needs. I just had this one need and thought a private show would help him along - he does actually want to get his organisation to migrate and I thought the server might be a good place to start. (Some staff do use OOo and the Gimp). He recognises a need to learn and it would all have to be worked so things did not crash all about him first time. Then there's resistance to change and file compatibility in a dual system. In an ideal world there would be a place (College IT (training) departments should do this as a matter of course - surely) to see a Linux server with thin clients operating with the whole range of typical Office tasks using all GNU software - businesses reminded regularly and appointments made to learn how to. Or something like that. I can dream. -- james kilty http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html