Well for all the Microsoft Junkies and the NOvell newbies out there, you can now try a completely functional and full featured DESKTOP alternative to Windows without installing anything to your local partitions.
SUSE Linux has been released in a LIVE version that is an ISO you can just burn to disk, boot from the CD and you startup th eLInux Kernel and run SUSE, remove the CD and reboot and your original system will boot without any changes made.
SUSE Linux comes complete with Open Office 1.1.1 which is MOSTLY MS Office compatible (with the exception of some Excell macros but then again it’s version 1.1.1 so it will be fixed soon).
Other than that, everything is the same as Windoze, except more stable, more secure and CHEAP AS HELL!!!
SUSE LInux sells for about $39.00 for a corporate licence in Canada, it is BUNDLED with graphics and audio suites AND OPEN OFICE is included. Lets see MS do that now and offer their next OS (Longhorn)WITH MS Office bundled at $49.00 per user, (oh and actually make it work).
Reviw and Download SUSE Linux here, it’s free, runs from CD without changing anything, wil work on MOST systems, you have nothing to lose really:
http://download.novell.com/pages/PublicSearch.jsp
Don’t tell me your users would have trouble with THIS. User issues have been the only valid reason for most companies to avoid Linux, time to find a new reason I suppose.