[Colchester] Hello!

[Wayland Sothcott]

On 04/03/2013 20:56, Ian Snow wrote:
> Evening Russ
>
> I too am lucky enough to get to play with Linux at work, as I admin Linux
> database, web, dns and mail servers as well as hack php and c++ admittedly
> currently on Windows but we're moving to Qt so I can code on linux and only
> have to compile and test on Windows
>
> I've been using Linux for around a decade now, and at work on the desktop for
> the last year with Windows in a VirtualBox VM, due to this I haven't had to
> play with Wine in a commercial setting, and last used it at home to play Wow
> years ago before it irritated me too much to continue playing
>
> I happen to be a Sage 50 developer and I suspect your mileage will vary, for
> one thing Sage UK will likely not support running Sage on top of Wine.
> It also has a Sage SData Service these days and I'm not sure how Wine handles
> windows services
>
> Ian
>
Hello Russ and Ian,

I would be interested in how to get Sage to run 20 users reliably. What 
server tuning would be required.
It should be possible to fine tune SAMBA so it works better for Sage 
than Windows 2003.

Regards,
Wayland.

>> Morning All!
>>
>> Just a quick message to say hello! I am a colchester resident and technical
>> director at Junari Ltd based in Colchester. I am lucky enough to get play
>> with Linux in my day job :)
>>
>> We use Ubuntu Linux servers to host OpenERP and Django-based web
>> applications for our customers, and run a KVM-based internal development
>> environment.
>>
>> I also use linux (ubuntu desktop) on my work laptop and my home PCs.
>>
>> Unfortunately we do still use Winblows on most of our workstations in the
>> office, mainly because our customers do too, and we integrate with several
>> windows-based products such as Sage 50 and Outlook.
>>
>> I am eager to change this at some point but I havn't really had a chance to
>> experiment with Wine / Crossover to see if its feasable. Would be
>> interested if anyone has any experience of using Wine in a commercial
>> environment?
>>
>> We are also always on the lookout for good open source developers!
>>
>> Look forward to meeting any local linux people!
>>
>> Russ
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