30 Oct
2008
30 Oct
'08
2:17 p.m.
giopas wrote:
Hi *,
I'd like to know if someone here around has already implemented linux as
client and server o.s. and other open software (openoffice, evolution and so
on) for a Luxembourg PSF.
Linux is used by many Luxembourgish companies. SES, IIE, some hospitals and
P&T come to mind.
In fact, I'd really like to slowly make my
(financial and accountant)
company switching from closed source to FOSS,
Congratulations for this wise decision!
but I'm concerned about the
absence of support and professional outsourced maintenance.
????
Do you know any IT Luxembourg company able to plan and
insure maintenance of
a small and quite simple IT platform?
I'm quite astonished that Brent hasn't replied yet (or did I miss his
message), but his company, Plan-net specialises in these kind of of
services (Linux support for small & medium companies):
http://www.plan-net.lu/
contact(a)plan-net.lu
There are many other Luxembourgish companies which support Linux too. The
advantage of having an open platform is that you are not tied to a single
supplier (or single group of suppliers).
At the present we use - for ordinary work - just
Microsoft Office 2007,
Microsoft Exchange 2007, active directory and a tunnelled VNC from remote.
Another little proprietary client-software could be at last be virtualized.
In your opinion, for example, is it now possible to
easily and in a "more
than effective way" migrate from Microsoft Exchange to an analog free mail
server
Free mail servers have been existing since way before commercial offering
(remember, e-mail was already around for Unix at a time when for Bill Gates
the future was CD-Roms...)
Lots of software is available for the purpose: sendmail, postfix, dovecot, ...
(with shared calendar, tasks, appointments, requests,
etc..)?
Lots of free groupware solutions exist as well: OpenGroupware, eGroupware,
IMP/Horde (to some extent), ...
I'd really like to have a feedback from you.
enjoy, ;)
giopas
Regards,
Alain