Home Register Members List Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read

Go Back   TechFuels Forum > Software > Linux/Free BSD

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools
Dylan Simons
Member
 

Dylan Simons is offline  
Old 06-30-2009, 08:08 AM
  #1 (permalink)
Migration on Linux platform

The slowdown had shown the path of open source and free software to qUite a few organizations, and Similarly this project was also conceptualized to reduce the cost of IT and strengthen security.

The five member IT team of Sanghi Industries Limited headed by Mukud Gandhi was assigned to migrate the majority of the existing network to open source and Linux. The benefits visualized before commencing this project were saving the windows OS license cost, plus saving on the client level anti virus cost as Linux being is a secure OS doesn't always requires a client level anti virus in place.

The biggest challenges faced while commencing this project was the unacceptance to change from Windows to Linux by the users of the organization due to obvious familiarity issues.

The other technical challenges were to run IPMSGexe which is a Windows based organization wide small messaging solution and some other regular Windows applications.

To make these apps work, extensive use of wine (which is a Windows emulator for Linux) was done. The other problem faced by the organization was to migrate old pst file of Outlook to Linux After testing quite a few Linux mail clients they finally used Thunderbird mail client for importing the pst file to Linux.
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote
Reply


Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On

Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Migration towards Linux and open source cherish22 Linux/Free BSD 1 04-07-2009 08:19 AM
The new platform uretech987 Everything Else 0 12-01-2008 06:31 AM
DT Migration Bundle onlytek Everything Else 0 08-23-2008 03:56 PM
Plan a Linux Migration winstore Linux/Free BSD 0 07-15-2008 06:46 PM
How expensive would cost migration to Windows Vista? techno23 Windows Vista 0 02-23-2008 09:44 AM


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 05:45 AM.

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.2
Copyright ©2000 - 2010, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
SEO by vBSEO 3.3.0
Copyright Techfuels -->
SEO by SubmitEdge


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151