[Sussex] Business without Microsoft

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 19:08, John wrote:
> On Thursday 21 Aug 2003 4:24 pm, Geoff Teale wrote:
> > Yet again, here's one for the "Linux isn't ready for the desktop" and
> > "businesses can't run without Windows" crowd...
> >
> > Ernie Ball is a non-technical company with little technical knowledge in
> > house.  They've been operating their entire business on Linux (yup,
> > thats desktops and servers) for three years.  Here's a great story about
> > what made them make the change and how it has gone:
> >
> > http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html?tag=lh
> >
> > .. one key thing I support in this story is the idea that putting MS
> > Office and IE on every desktop doesn't make you're people more
> > effective, it usually just makes them less productive.
> 
> 
> Well spotted Geoff,
> 
> and I reckon it's well done Ernie Ball - I think I'll buy the premium gold 
> plated strings, next time my guitar needs some.
> 
> regards
> 
> John D.

Super Slinky No. 9's the only strings I've ever put on my electric in
the 8 years I've had it!  I knew they were a good company! :p

Have just swapped from Mandrake 9.1 back to Gentoo 1.4 - What a
difference, I'm running icewm instead of KDE and it's much nicer,
cleaner and faster too!

Matt
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