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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Fwd: [kde] Desktop Decision
From:       Wade Olson <wade () corefunction ! com>
Date:       2005-11-14 16:35:27
Message-ID: a42b7670511140835u4db36f4ameab1ec435fd562f7 () mail ! gmail ! com
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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 <kevin.krammer@gmx.at> 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 <rick@royalpurple.com>
> 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
> 
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