On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
I updated the slides at http://kegel.com/cebit one more time. The talk is this coming Thursday, so I'll probably fiddle with it a bit more. I did give a second practice run in front of a live audience, including some windows sysadmins, and they said it made Wine less scary. Which is, I guess, my goal...
Speaking of SysAdmins, at ISP I am contracting for, my fellow admins that run Linux end up having to rdesktop quite a bit because Wine is unable to run Microsoft Office 2005 or 2007 communicator for the corporate discussions. There are some Windows admins that also would run Linux if not for that. I have found this is a common problem now at two seperate companies, at the last place I contracted at, there was a 50/50 mix of Ubuntu/Windows for developers and admins, but they are enforcing Office Communicator as the standard and so it looks like the Linux guys are going to have to dual boot or start using rdesktop more, which adds cost in Client Access licenses.
I don't really have the time right now with my current projects however if you want to sell some of these guys on a Linux desktop and they have Exchange/Outlook infrastructure, this is a show-stopper, at least for us.
Thanks