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KDE Case Study: Computer & Network Consulting

Overview Located at Jena, Germany Computer & Network Consulting use KDE since 1.0 on all office and development workstations and notebooks (Celeron 400 up to Athlon 1200). The desktop is easy to use and powerfull for all users. There were no problems for former Windows users. From KDE the company used to do KMail, Konqueror, KOrganizer, Quanta+ and KDevelop. The workstations are served from several servers (databases, nfs, samba, nis, internet access, fax, intranet mail) all running SuSE Linux 7.2. Since the use of Linux and KDE on the workstations nearly no support was needed from the user (only after updates).

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Publisher	K Desktop Environment	File Format	HTML
Date Published	April 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Linux - Open Source, Linux Server OS

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