Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 67.102.178.254]
on July 21, 2008 08:42 PM
I am an attorney and also the network admin at my firm. We have just completed our migration to Ubuntu on the desktop and servers.
As others have noted, some lawyer-specific apps are only written to run on Windows. To deal with this, and because running them under WINE was either not working or too buggy, we set up a single Windows terminal server in VMware, and everyone uses rdesktop to terminal in. WordPerfect, ACT!, Timeslips, HotDocs, Fast-Tax, etc. all run on the Windows virtual machine. Web browsing, pdf viewing, email, etc. are done on the Ubuntu desktops. So far so good. The next phase is to integrate some replacements for the Windows-only apps like openSugarCRM instead of ACT!, etc., and to create a KnowledgeBase Wiki on our intranet.
Someone mentioned that QuickBooks Online Edition only runs in IE. Our experience bears this out. It relies on ActiveX controls to function. I've been curious if it will work with IE running on Ubuntu under WINE, but have not tested this yet.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 67.102.178.254] on July 21, 2008 08:42 PMAs others have noted, some lawyer-specific apps are only written to run on Windows. To deal with this, and because running them under WINE was either not working or too buggy, we set up a single Windows terminal server in VMware, and everyone uses rdesktop to terminal in. WordPerfect, ACT!, Timeslips, HotDocs, Fast-Tax, etc. all run on the Windows virtual machine. Web browsing, pdf viewing, email, etc. are done on the Ubuntu desktops. So far so good. The next phase is to integrate some replacements for the Windows-only apps like openSugarCRM instead of ACT!, etc., and to create a KnowledgeBase Wiki on our intranet.
Someone mentioned that QuickBooks Online Edition only runs in IE. Our experience bears this out. It relies on ActiveX controls to function. I've been curious if it will work with IE running on Ubuntu under WINE, but have not tested this yet.
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