[SATLUG] Switching shop from Winders to Linux

[Alex Bartonek]

to address previous questions..

VNC server will not be a option.. reason being is that
they have 3 people entering data in at various times. 
Quickbooks lets you have one user per machine logged
into the quickbooks database.  So if I setup VNC it
just lets one user log into quickbooks not multiple
sessions.  (dont know if that makes sense).

I dont want to use VMWare because I'm still running
Windows..I want to eliminate it from the equation.  I
will give it a shot and will set it up to where users
cannot install anything or browse the web/email on the
Windows side.

I like the Codeweavers approach.. but even that is
iffy... they use TurboTax(xx) and the current version
requires Quickbooks 2006 to import tax stuff.  So I'll
be risking incompatibility w/codeweavers each time a
new version of TurboTax comes out.

At any rate.. I was given the green light.. they have
a new laptop so I will install SuSE 10.1 on it and
play around w/CodeWeavers and VMWare to see which will
work best..

I'll keep you'all posted.

alex


 
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