neel s Gurjar wrote:
Hi, all i have some querries please see down
Queries : We are Planning to migrate from Windows to Linux Platform.Currently we are having two departments with below hardware and software configurations. We seek your guidance for this migration process. We will be very grateful if you can help us out in this pr We seek your guidance on following queries :-
- Can you please suggest us which flavour of linux is suitable for each department depending upon software used by them? We have tried Suse 9.0 and RedHat 9.0 & Federo Core 3.
Personally, I prefer Suse to Redhat any day. Suse 9.2 Professional is the best option you have. You can also get an official copy at very little cost from Novell. I believe they have support too. FC3 is what some of my friends swear by, but I have not really seen it. Both SUSE 9.2 and FC3 support devnagiri fonts. RedHat, unfortunately, support even for paid versions is close to pathetic (based on comments from our clients).
- Can you please suggest us qually efficient linux based compatible softwares for below given softwares ?
- Also we are looking for Diskless Networking (dumb client and HDD shared on server) for above 2 departments. Can you please suggest us which networking configuraton (hardware and software) is best suited. Kindly note that Department 2 is using Desktop P
We have set up a proof of concept setup using LTSP at our clients office at nariman point. 1 PIII 700 based server (actually one of our old pcs converted to server in Linux), 5 pcs, all Pentium 1 75mhz to 200mhz range, 16MB ram each connected on the network. Each PC runs off the server, using OpenOffice, Firefox. When work starts, we plan to use Thunderbird as email client. We have run all pcs at same time, graphics is bad due to old hardware, but good enough for normal office working. We have loaded ck-erp (payroll, accounting, HR, Inventory, etc) , sugar crm and obm (calandering / scheduling) softwares which are being tested to decide which of them will be used in future for all the work
- As we are very much new to Linux environment, the linux flavour which we will choose should also have good online support available where we can ask our questions and get the results quickly.
- Also our users are very much familiar to windows environment, so the softwares on linux which we will choose should be user friendly and GUI based.
- Also those softwares should be tried, tested and stable so as we would not face any problem in future.
Department -1 Current Configuration Hardware Software 15 Machines MS Excel C.P.U. - 200 to 300 Mhz Tally RAM – 32 to 64 MB MS Access HDD – 10 to 40 GB Developed Programs in Visual Basic Stand Alone Systems and No Server
I assume all pcs are Pentium Is. Then you need a powerful PC to use as server. You can do away with all the HDDs, move one or two of the large HDDs to the server (depending on total data requirement). Excel - replace with Open Office 1.9, there is hardly any difference
MS Access - No direct replacement. But most of the work you do on tally can be moved to Excel or a combination of MySQL and some management tools. In any case, MSAccess is no longer a viable platform even in windows. I will need more details on what you do on MSAccess to go on with this, but it is likely that what you use it for can be done by server based software like ck-erp, obm, etc.
Tally is a major problem. There is no cure for that except to move to a Linux bases accounting software. In any case, tally is highly dangerous to use in a corporate environment as it allows all kinds of manipulation. During audit, we always qualify reports where Tally is being used. We have moved many of our clients out of Tally.
All programs developed on Visual Basic will have to be rewritten on Linux. This is a reason why many companies have not moved out of propriotary softwares. If the programs are in Visual Basic .Net then you have some hopes by moving to Mono, but VB6 is just stuck there.
I would suggest that you identify which people need to use VB software and dont migrate them in the first stage. In second stage, perhaps you can have a Win3K server with remote desktop client running on Linux to give access to the VB Software. We worked that succssfully in an office with 75+ users.
Department – 2 Current Configuration Hardware Software 10 Machines Pagemaker 5.0 and 6.5 C.P.U. - 200 Mhz. To 1.7Ghz Devnagri Fonts Software RAM – 32 to 256 MB Photoshop HDD – 10 to 40 GB Stand Alone Systems and No Server
Pagemaker and photoshop can be replaced by good Linux software. I forgot what it is called, but it is already present in all distros. My friends in graphic design tell me that it is better than photoshop
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