Linux for small business

[David Mandala]

Yes Linux has a GHOST type of program sortof, A: GHOST will work with
Linux, B: dd is your friend C: there are several image to CDrom programs
that will backup an image to CD and reinstall same on another drive.

Can still use Peachtree different ways:
A: wine (depending on version of peachtree it may well run under wine)
B: VNC (Set up a single windows machine and use VNC from the linux
systems to run peachtree remotely. Great advantage is only a single
machine to backup)
C: CITRIX (Same as VNC but expensive.)
D: VMWARE (actually allows running Windows on the Linux machine while
Linux is running. Expensive and your still running windows).

Evolution and Open Office software suite are GPL'ed software and have no
restrictions on use. Evolution does have some plugins that are not
GPL'ed software but in a Windows free environment you will not need
them.

By avoiding use of Windows at all your friend can avoid being audited
for his "MicroSoft licenses" by the BSA which will save him a lot of
time and money. Over the long haul using Linux will save a lot of money
and time.

Also it is quite possible to setup the machine as thin clients and there
by saving you the need to build each machine.

Cheers,

Davidm

On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 16:12, Terence Chang wrote:
> Thanks David:
> 
> WOW. That seems to me a lot of installation work. Does
> linux has GHOST(Image) type of program, so I can
> install one machine and make a images copy of the
> disk, and then copy to every machines. Currently, all
> the desktop pcs in my friend's office are the same. 
> 
> My friend is running some accounting software
> "PeachTree" on each machines, which is hard to get rid
> off. I was thinking to write an similar program in PHP
> with MySQL, but it might take forever to finish. :-)
> 
> The NFS sounds like UNIX type of terms. Right? I also
> thought that "Evolution" are not free for commercial
> use. Since my friend already pay for the desktop PC
> and all of the licenses. Using win95/98 to connect to
> Linux server will be the best bet. 
> 
> Thank you all! You guys rock! 
>  
> By the way, I am a Oracle DBA(on Solaris), MSSQL DBA,
> ColdFusion type of person. I am just getting into
> Linux and open source world. I will be happy to help
> anyone who has Database and ColdFusion questions (off
> line) :-). 
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> Terence Chang
> 
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> Terence Chang
> peanutlen@yahoo.com
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