From: Adam Flinton 

Chris Robinson wrote:
> I've been concidering uses for Linux for the company I work for for
> quite a while now.  Basically, we have some shop floor PC's that run a
> spreadsheet off one of our servers.  That's all they do (they enter
> results from tesing some products on the shop floor), so I've been
> thinking of using Linux & OpenOffice instead for a while now.  I was
> talking to my boss who thought it was a good idea and then to one of our
> security guys who's pretty unix/ Linux savvy about which distro to use
> etc and he was fine with the idea too.
>
> I'll need to run trails first (the main thing will to see if the
> spreadsheet has any macros etc in that'll need re-doing), but it looks
> promising.  This'll then account for around 10% of PC's onsite.  Once
> it's in and running, who knows - it could pave the way for Linux
> elsewhere.
>
> Chris.
>
Long ago...1998-99  we did a similar thing with linux. The
warehouse people used a Java Swing GUI to enter & find out details re
shipments. Ended up with 3'rd hand (within the company) PC'es running linux
& autostarting X & the JavaApp (autologon on as as user
WarehousePC1 to n etc.).

Still working AFAIK.

Adam

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