[wplug] Pittsburgh's Maronda Homes uses Linux and OOo

[Phil]

On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 10:16:42 -0500, Christopher Galik 
<chris at cardiactelecom.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 16:02, Vance Kochenderfer wrote:
>>    "We found it very difficult to keep up with all the licenses," says
>>    Piccolo. "We took an inventory and decided we had the choice of
>>    purchasing all the licenses to become compliant or make the switch to
>>    OpenOffice."
> ...
>>    Pittsburgh-based Maronda Homes now runs desktop applications on its
>>    550 PCs with OpenOffice, Linux software downloaded off the Web from
>>    www.openoffice.org. Maronda is also using commercial server software
>>    software from Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT) on its AS/400 mid-range server
>>    to manage its networked applications. The move has saved Maronda in
>>    excess of $300,000 on annual licensing fees for Microsoft (Nasdaq:
>>    MSFT) Office and server maintenance costs.
>
> Okay, maybe I'm reading this wrong, but what I get from this is that
> this company is running OpenOffice.org on their Windows computers, and
> running RH on their server.  Maybe I'm just reading it wrong?  Don't get
> me wrong, I'm glad they made the switch... if I managed to get everyone
> in my office to run OOo my life would be a lot easier (I could quit
> sending out attachments in both calc and excel formats for one) but it
> doesn't seem to me like they have completely switched over to Linux.
> Anyone else have some input?
>
> -c.
>

I like the as400 reference.  This means they've LPAR'ed the as400 (it's 
called iSeries now) so that they can run a guest OS in the partition - RH 
in this case.  That's pretty cool.

Phil