[SunRescue] Ok...newbie question...

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 05:27:14PM -0500, Jonathan Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Brian Dunbar wrote:
> :Just curious . . . what we're doing here is giving all of the designers NT
> :workstations, then using a terminal program to X to the solaris systems,

Thats what I do - I have requirements of MSWord, Excel (ick, ick, ick) and
Visio Pro 2000 for some of the things I do - so I have a nice 600Mhz
P-III box running Windows 2000 Pro, with Exceed and SecureCRT for access to
the UNIX boxes (Solaris, HP-UX, DEC UNIX) that I manage.

Boss offered me a Ultra 5 on my desk, but I told him that I can do my job
perfectly fine with the Windows machine, and the last thing I need is another
box in this cubicle.  As a fancy dumb terminal, windows works rather well. 8-)

> They don't *have* to have MS-based workstations to read their e-mail.
> You can turn on the POP and SMTP relay services in Exchange and let
> them use Netscape on their Sun desktops.

I did this with Netscape and Linux on my machine when I was at ConnectSouth,
but "saw the light" of using Outlook with Exchange when I started here - 
the meeting scheduling, etc, is pretty nice.  A proper Outlook client for
*nix would be nice, but so far, all the "ports" of MS software I've seen to
Solaris or Linux have been horrible...

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX