LinuxMall.com: Linux Consultant Teaches Secretaries to Kill [Programs]

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"The partners and employees of a Detroit-area law firm recently wired with thin clients running on a Linux server are pleased with the system's performance--and with the amount of time and money saved in its implementation, said a partner at the law practice of Cummings, McClorey, Davis and Acho."

"There is a learning curve," Seward admitted. "We run on the KDE desktop, and sometimes you have to be reminded to single-click instead of double-click," he mentioned, noting that the habitual double-click accidently issues duplicate commands. "Unique Systems does a great deal of the systems administration from Toledo, and it's really kind of cool," Seward explained. "They use secure shell to get in and kill the runaway processes." Five of the secretaries have had crash courses in Linux through Unique Systems, he said, and are able to use the `kill' command themselves."

"There are still a couple of people who like Windows and miss PowerPoint and prefer Excel to Applix." But overall, he said, the law firm is "very pleased" with the performance of its new system. "We wanted a comfort level with it," he said."

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