[Glastonbury] question

[peter cole]

On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 20:34 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 05:49:27PM +0000, peter cole wrote:
> > We are looking at expanding our set up at work with another 8 Unix
> > stations These stations have a specific image loaded on the hard drive
> > so we dont want to install any other software as when an update comes
> > the drives are wiped an a new image is installed. 
> > 
> Is this AIX / Solaris? [As a side issue, where do you work?] 


AIX

and it's close to Yeovil 

> 
> > 2 problems email and office suite. 
> > 
> > i could use netscape for email but the home directories are held off
> > site. As a nis server is used for authentication 
> > So i was thinking about a webbed based email system run off our linux
> > server like php groupware e groupware etc. At present we are using
> > exchange.
> > 
> Continue using Exchange: use one of 
> 
> 	Evolution and the Exchange connector "widget"
> 
> 	Thunderbird??
> 
> 	Citrix Metaframe and the ICA client software (commercial and
> 	expensive - but it means you can talk direct to a Windows 
> 	Terminal Server)

yes i can setup netscape but /home is not local on the machines and is
out of my control as it is on our customers site so email getting stored
there is there is a problem with home you loose your information
and /home is not backed up so file there at your own risk. 

> 
> > Any body got any ideas on the office side of things ? 
> > may be a remote x session but don't really want them to have to log out
> > of there existing session to do this. 
> 
> Crossover Office and MS Office :(
> 
> OpenOffice 2.0
> 

The big issue is that we use a customer image for the OS and Catia and
any upgrades and the images get replaced so don't want to install other
software if it can be avoided 


> > These system are CAD station running Catia 
> > 
> > so open to ideas. By the way hardware and software for each seat is in
> > the region of 35K Shame it does not run on Linux !! 
> > 
> Catia v5 _does_ run on Linux - Google for Catia and Linux confirms it
> as more than a mere rumour and the first hit suggests it might even
> install - it's just that Dassault haven't decided whether to release it 
> or not - and IBM aren't supporting it yet. I'm sure they will - though 
> most of the stuff I've just seen suggests that the Windows version is 
> better/faster/best thing since sliced bread (for relatively small
> stuff - say less than 35000 items :)
It's V4 we are using as that is what our customers use. I have heard
about the above but not tried it. 



> 
> > Regards 
> > 
> > Peter 
> > 
> > 
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