Star Linux on desktop will be 'cheaper and more secure', claim vendors
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 1st Oct 2004 00:16 UTC
Linux A senior IT executive at a major pharmaceutical company summed up the challenge for Linux at the ZDNet UK IT Priorities conference when he asked one simple question: what are the benefits in migrating from Microsoft to Linux at the desktop?
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Rdesktop and Windows only apps
by chemicalscum on Fri 1st Oct 2004 14:45 UTC

In my opinion the best approach for a large organization migrating to a Linux desktop which has problems with a limited number of Windows only apps, that are used by a small number of specialized users, is Rdesktop. Run a few Windows servers with these applications and serve them remotely using Windows terminal services to Rdesktop clients on the Linux desktops.

The solution to the Notes problem is to upgrade to Lotus Workplace 2 which is a cross platform Java application based on the Eclipse platform and intended as Notes successor.