[LinuxUsers] little off topic

[Paul Saenz]

speaking of email problems. I've noticed that Dante's emails don't get through to me. I noticed in the last month that as various threads progress, people respond to Dante's emails of which I had never received. I thought that was kind of strange.

Paul

From: peter.manis at gmail.com
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:32:22 -0400
To: linuxusers at socallinux.org
Subject: Re: [LinuxUsers] little off topic

I agree with Dante here.  IMHO you need to install and use a Windows machine at home, you aren't going to learn enough about fixing small business issues if you aren't using it.  I don't mean the occasional usage, I mean actually setting it up and trying to do the same things that small businesses are going to be doing.  Networking, file sharing, email, etc, this will help you understand what causes problems, how to fix them, and suggestions to make on software.  Knowing the Outlook is a pain doesn't mean that Thunderbird is going to be a better solution for that company and you aren't going to know the use cases if you don't use it and see the benefits.


For most of the small businesses I have done work for I would never have recommended a move to Linux.  For one, the software they needed required Windows and cross platform alternatives were crap.  Even Openoffice is very much lacking in dealing with Office documents properly and businesses need to be able to send and receive documents to and from other companies and residential customers.  Those customers are not going to have Openoffice installed or have anything that supports open formats.



On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Dante Lanznaster <dantecl at gmail.com> wrote:


On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Paul Saenz<downtoearthman at hotmail.com> wrote:



> I am planning to offer IT services to small business, and I know that when I

> go

> and do so, many people are going to say that their computers are running

> slow, so

> what I need to do first is to research and find what are the typical and

> most likely

> kinds of problems that are causing computers slow down.



If you're adventuring into this market, be ready to ditch linux

in a commercial way. It's gonna be restricted to your personal

time. Unless the small businesses in your area operate

completely different from the ones in San Diego, of course.



And performance-wise, when there's a problem, there is rarely

a program that will be point-and-click, much manual troubleshooting

involved.

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