Completely OT [was: Shoudn't this pristine thing be a version 1 issue?]

In a message dated: 11 Mar 2003 14:18:03 CST
cmpilato@collab.net said:

>I think missed the key phrase "for Office". It is rather common for
>businesses to require that developers have the ability to deal with
>Microsoft Office documents and such. The traditional solution is
>exactly as Florin noted -- run Windows, and use Exceed to access your
>dev and test machines, all of which have /home mounted from some other
>machine over NFS.

Oh, right! I still don't get why people think they need office :)

Btw, for the first time in my life, I'm at a company, where, hired as
a UNIX sysadmin, I was handed a laptop running Windows, and the
entire company is structured around using Windows and office.

I've been running Linux on my desktop since day 2 (I needed to go and
get Partition Magic on day 1 :)

Fetchmail over IMAP -> exchange gets me e-mail
OpenOffice/AbiWord/Gnumeric gets me anything else.

Note, I don't do calendaring, it's the only thing I'm missing, but
since I also don't do meetings, I don't miss it too much :)

(the exchange servers are running Exchange 5.5, and
Ximian Evolution+Connector requires Exchange 2K, but I hate Evolution
anyway, so it's not a big deal :)

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