[asterisk-biz] Anyone still using skype ?

[C F]

On 9/11/07, Steve Totaro <stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> wrote:
> I have migrated all of my workstations to Fedora Core 7.  Only two of my
> servers run Windows 2003.  One is for QuickBooks and the other runs
> Exchange 2003.
>
> I cannot find a single thing that I cannot do with this setup that I
> couldn't before (except printing is a little difficult sometimes but
> that might just be a learning curve).
>

I could find something that you cannot do with this setup, and that is
gett rid of the 2 Windows machines.

> Using VNC or remote desktop, QB is in easy reach (as is any other
> Windows app) and I also have IE installed on my FC7 box just in case I
> need it for compatibility.  Like yesterday, I could not click the submit
> or order button in Firefox.  I opened IE in Linux, copied over the URL
> and all was joyful.
>
> That is just me, the majority of the world will resist change and stay
> with what they know and see in commercials everyday.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Totaro
>
> C F wrote:
> > Yes, I am and so are around 80% of all the other PCs in the world. I
> > have to admit I have as many Linux machines that I manage as Windows
> > machines, so for me the statistics doesn't hold. While I admire what
> > linux can do, it is in no way a replacement for windows in an office
> > envirnment, just like Mac isn't, as much as I would like to argue in
> > favor of linux. All of my linux machines are special or single purpose
> > machines running Firewalls/Routers, Asterisk or apache.
> >
> > Most of what I do has to do with Phone systems. Avaya Definity makes a
> > nice GUI for managing their systems, guess what, it only works in
> > Windows. Pansonic makes a nice GUI and again it only works in Windows.
> > Samsong makes DVRs that has a remote viewing program, guess what it
> > only works on Windows, and most of the other companies that
> > manufacture DVRs write their tools only form Windows.
> >
> > Granted most of business productivity tools (Office etc.) are now
> > cross platform thanks to OpenOffice.org. But any other tool is not,
> > has Intuit released a version of QuickBooks for Linux? I don't think
> > so. Did the Sage guys do that? Nope. So to answer your question I have
> > another question: Who exactly is not using Windows?
> >
> > On 9/11/07, Drew Gibson <drew at oanda.com> wrote:
> >>  Isn't the REAL question "Is anyone STILL using Windows?"
> >>
> >>  regards,
> >>
> >>  Drew
> >>
> >>
> >>  Dean Collins wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  Yep – I got two 'chats' yesterday from people who have this. The first one
> >> I didn't realize until I clicked the link but my virus control caught the
> >> .scr file from loading.
> >>
> >>  The second one had the exact same wording so is easy to spot.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  Regards,
> >>
> >>  Dean Collins
> >>  Cognation Pty Ltd
> >>  dean at cognation.net
> >>  +1-212-203-4357 Ph
> >>  +61-2-9016-5642 ( Sydney in-dial).
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
> >> [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of
> >> Dovid Bender
> >>  Sent: Tuesday, 11 September 2007 7:30 AM
> >>  To: asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com
> >>  Subject: [asterisk-biz] Anyone still using skype ?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://share.skype.com/sites/en/2007/09/on_the_worm_that_affects_skype.html
> >>
> >>  --
> >> Drew Gibson
> >>
> >> Systems Administrator
> >> OANDA Corporation
> >> www.oanda.com
> >>
> >>
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