From: "Geo." 

why bother, obviously these dedicated function machines are already working
so why would you fix what isn't broken? (you already own whatever it is
they are running)

Geo.

"Chris Robinson"  wrote in
message news:3F167EE1.64BC93AD{at}NOSPAMtotalise.co.uk...
> 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.
>

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