Kevin, Thanks for the email. Do you think Rick Montgomery might be willing to talk more about KDE kiosk and how KDE addresses small/medium businesses? He mentions other similar groups as well. No need to bring up the context of his email, but just a pro-KDE/pro-OSS interview might be nice. Wade On 11/13/05, Kevin Krammer wrote: > This just came in on the KDE general user mailinglist > > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: [kde] Desktop Decision > Date: Sunday 13 November 2005 19:18 > From: Rick Montgomery > To: crc@novell.com > Cc: kde@mail.kde.org > > I have been adamantly pushing Novell/SuSe adoption at our small company > (testing SLES 9 / NLD 9) as well as 9-9.3 and now 10. 10 is a big hit; > but the annoucement to go with Gnome as the supported interface will > almost completely kill my project. Not one of the users trying it liked > it (we set up testing for both desktops). This is the reason Red Hat was > not considered and SuSe was chosen. Now we like Evolution even though > it's missing some basic functionality (leave messages on server until > deleted from inbox etc..) that works great in TBird. > > I have been involved in beta testing Xandros Server, and I tested their > Business desktop 3 prior to release. They were comperable to SuSe except > on their Windows Connectivity, which is the best and easiest I have ever > used in our AD environments. That being said we still stayed the SuSe > course untill the Gnome annoucement....... > > The other IT directors admins from various companies I meet with (we are > all working on decreasing / replacing windows as a group, share the > testing load so to speak) have the same feelings. We are all in > manufacturing non computer, communications or software related > industries .... > > Please rest assured there is no zealotry involved, just pure simple > business economics; less problems better functionality (security with > KIOSK) with KDE than Gnome which means better utilization of limited IT > resources and training budgets. > > I understand your decision was one of economics as well since you own > Ximian, unfortunately your marketing department led you astray on this > decision, Gnome has to many headaches and less functional offerings than > KDE IMHO (its tsclient frontend for rdesktop is pretty spiffy though); > well these are just our opinions. Oh and I purchase commercial Linux > software offerings as well as purchasing items where the proceeds got to > open source developers; I believe you get what you pay for (except with > 90% of windows offerings) > > Rick > > > ___________________________________________________ > This message is from the kde mailing list. > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > Kevin Krammer > Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User > Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtforum.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. > > Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription. > > > _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.