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Daedrus
07-21-2004, 10:38 AM
First of I want to thank everyone here for their direct help and help through previous threads. It has help me learn much more than I would have on my own. I have gone through several distros and WM's (currently using SuSe 9.1, fluxbox, and openbox)

Secondly, I won a personal victory yesterday. I work in a County department in a large West Coast County. We currently run Netware 5.1 and Windows servers with Windows on all desktops (except mine). I found out yesterday that we will be migrating to Linux to replace Netware 5.1 (still staying with Novell and their utilities). I have been working towards this for over a year. Our Deputy Director of IT is going to try and get the County CIO to assist in the transition and pay for training. So here's to hoping everything goes through.

Lessons Learn and Musings:
1. RTFM
2. Read everything else.
3. Play, fiddle, and tweak.
4 Ask questions.
5. You won't get anywhere if you don't try.

Again, thanks for all of your help thus far. Everything that I have learned so far has made me that much more valuable to my department, especially considering recent announcements and I am only 1 of 2 people that know Linux around here. Speaking of which, since the County might be footing the bill on training, any recommendations on places to go? We have at least 3 other people with no Linux experience that need to go. Thanks again.
:D

hard candy
07-21-2004, 02:29 PM
It seems as if you are using Novell and can use Suse (since they own Suse), they should throw in some training for a good discount. You might bring up that point to your boss.

paj12
07-21-2004, 11:43 PM
It seems as if you are using Novell and can use Suse (since they own Suse), they should throw in some training for a good discount. You might bring up that point to your boss.
I agree. It seems like Novell had really been promoting their stuff lately. Some discount training might be a small price to pay for one more sheep, err... company in the flock. Congrats on getting your managment to listen to reason. :D

EnigmaOne
07-21-2004, 11:52 PM
Originally posted by Daedrus
I work in a County department in a large West Coast County.
>snip<
I found out yesterday that we will be migrating to Linux to replace Netware 5.1 (still staying with Novell and their utilities).

Intuitively speaking, I know this can't be Los Angeles County (the county with which my wife works); but I'm hoping against hope that LA County will do exactly that, and very soon.

EnigmaOne
07-22-2004, 04:52 PM
As a follow-up to my last post, it turns out that it is LA County!

My wife is now exceedingly happy, and is trying to track-down the internal goings-on with respect to this latest initiative.

Maybe I should snoop-out which departments are going to need some fresh (ok, in my case, slightly moldy) "Linux-folk" and submit my app for a third-shift opening. Just for the fun of it.