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Re: Impressions from Linux Expo Paris and OSDEM Bruxelles
by Ferdinand GAssauer on Tuesday 06/Feb/2001, @23:48

Hi!
1.) Reading all the postings I want to draw your attention to MS-Outlook.
Untill importfilters for the pst files (mail, calendar, todo, contacts) are available it will be difficult to convince users to switch.

2.) The task of switching from MS-Windows/MS-Office/MS-Outlook to Linux/KDE has to be automated as it is everything else than easy and time consuming.
Imagine the task of the sysadmin of a middlesized or bigger organization to switch all the clients at the same time ..... - and nobody would like to leave this task to endusers.
2a) because of this (impossibility) KDE has to be capable to import/export MS formated files.
2b) For workstations (at home) without fileserver conection and mass backup possiblities, there must be a easy way to save the data (keep a temporary FAT16 partition on a harddisk with the necessary backup data)

I would imagine that the Linux/KDE setup program reads the necessary settings (workstation and user(s) specific information, printer, samba ...) out of the MS-registry, repartitions the harddisk, moves the files/directories to be saved on the backup partition, installs Linux/KDE on the primary partition, imports the previous collected settings, moves the data from the backup partition to the linux partition and integrate the backup partition into the linux partition. (Of course the backup partition could also be a another backup media - CD-RW, tape).

thats all ;-) - migration finished in 2 hours, (almost) no interaction necessary except feeding th CD-ROM of the distribution.

cu
ferdinand

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Re: Impressions from Linux Expo Paris and OSDEM Bruxelles
by Anonymous on Wednesday 07/Feb/2001, @12:58

At least importing Outlook Mail (and adress book) is possible using KMailCvt (www.hum.org).

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