singlewc{at}eudoramail.com wrote:
> 
>>If the company isn't interested in estimating total cost of ownership
>>with a swithc of OS's, there's no helping it, and the company won't pay
>>you what you're worth, because MS admins won't do those calculations.
> 
> 
> That may be so, but there is no way that cost of ownership has anything to
> do with the fact that Office, CAD and development applications, and a
> handful of other mainstream applications don't work on OS/2. We just have
> to be satisfied with the niche of being more reliable, and being the
> machines that just work, as opposed to always being rebooted and
> maintained. 
> 
> You are welcome to speak with this multinational corporation deeply
> entrenched in the M$ trap, and see if you can convince them to abandon M$
> and use OS/2, :-)  but I will settle for a chance to make a few dollars,
> if offered, and to see that at least none of the existing seats are
> abandoned. As we all know, the secret to M$ is not quality or cost, its
> marketing....... If IBM doesn't care to market the OS, there is little I
> can do to expand the installed base.
> 
> Thanks much for the redbook suggestion. I think I can get through all the
> networking, but to be honest, I am asking around for info and folks who
> know their stuff, so if I get stuck, I can have a chance to get some help,
> rather than just looking bad and having to give up and watch all the seats
> turn into M$ stations.

You should get quickly your base knowledge of networking by following 
the pathes you got already. Whenever a question left off use the usenet!

Find a news server of your choice and set it to the newsgroups
comp.os.os2.networking.*

When you have the chance to replace the old OS/2 WARP 3 or WARP 4 with 
eCS you'll find much help on
news://news.ecomstation.com/ecomstation.support.metworking
too.

At least it is easy to bind an eCS client into a network using M$ 
servers even as WARP Server or WSoD (or better eComStation Server.
A low range serverless network can easy communicate between eCS  
linux or M$ clients too even as mixed server networks with mixed OS 
clients. eCS is in this case quite more easy than all others.

Setup (speak install) is more easy than XP even directly from a server 
(WSoD, WARP Server or eComStation Server or M$ Server) because the eCS 
installer is CID based and it is easy to make the installer server 
based instead CD based.

Diskless boot is when there is a server in the network easy to build too.

So whenever TCO is a question eCS wins! Because maintenance can be 
done on the server for each user. When multi user capabilities 
required then look at HOBBES for the free extension.

You needs a restricted WPS? Look at HOBBES to find some different 
solutions for free.

-- 
Tschau/Bye

Herbert Rosenau
EDV Beratung & Programmierung
Lindelbrunnstr. 53a
76767 Hagenbach

Tel: 49-7273-919416
Fax: 49-7273-93072                     http://www.dv-rosenau.de/

 

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