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Re: [LUG] Linux in business

 

On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 12:14 +0000, Robin Cornelius wrote:

> The other thing is Business link have a large reach to most SME
> businesses and there role is provide information to the SME community,
> they often run seminars that are free to attend so I  think trying to
> get in communications with some of the local area PBAs and saying you
> want to run a seminar/series of seminars would be a *very* good move.
I am daydreaming about it. I personally have no credentials for this. 
Do we have the membership to offer a seminar, perhaps 2 or 3 speakers on 
different aspects of migration/adoption. Plus demo or promises of demos.

> 
> Yea as long as you highlight possible benefits and empower them to
> make a rational and informed decision you have done your job :-)
> getting a server to linux is probably a good start and using OOo and
> Gimp etc are also a great transition too. This is the route i have
> followed,
The guy I talked about uses a dedicated Linux firewall.

> One of our ties is a classic lock in situation where out
> data files can ONLY be read by one program that is protected with a
> dongle that is no longer available and not supported, if the dongle
> goes wrong we are screwed.
Are you able to mention the programme? Can the process be reverse
engineered?

-- 
james kilty
http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk


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