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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Interview with Tim Brodie from Display Works Inc.
From:       Mark Bucciarelli <mark () easymailings ! com>
Date:       2003-05-16 12:17:26
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On Friday 16 May 2003 1:17 am, Christopher TenHarmsel wrote:

> If you're interested in how a company that has sales worldwide
> (who's products you might even recognize) has benefitted from all
> of the hard work that goes into KDE, give it a read.

This is a tremendous article.  Great work!  This should be released to 
the local press in the Markham area.

Couple key points stand out:

	* they initially gave KDE to "unsophisticated" users with 
	_no_ training. (and it worked great).  This flies in the 
	face of most of the press you hear about KGX.

	* they are using LTSP.  The 12 users have "no clue" they 
	are sharing one server.  Can support six or eight more
	users w/o changing server.

	* 3.1 reduced the resource requirements on their LTSP
	server.

	* licensing issues were a pain that KGX solved.

	* migration path:
		- convert servers to GNU/Linux
		- amazed at stability increase
		- try KGX
		- celebrate!

Mark
 
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