On Wednesday 20 April 2005 10:05, Richard Chang wrote:

Hi Everyone, In our endeavour to implement a Windoze less office, I would like to add something. I am planning to implement FLOSS in my office network of 7 computers. No accounting packages, no frills network. Just Peer-to-Peer and connected to the Net thru one of the PCs' using the ICS in Win XP. Predominantly use Word, Excel and Mailing.

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:14:23AM -0400, Satya wrote:

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server thru which we can chat within our office. Is there any such application thru which we can chat, using "gaim" or something. Provided we are not connected to the Net always. I want to be able to chat with

Yes, Jabber. Install ejabberd or something on one of the Linux boxes.

or gnugk and openmcu and gnomemeeting and elcheapo netcams and u can have internal videoconferencing and chatting.

rgds jtd