We see no reason to move off OS/2
All the office computers run OS/2, but we do have a machine that has interchangeable hard disks that runs Windows 98 SE some of the time. It's up right now to print out an Excel contract where StarOffice OS/2 runs a signature line onto the next page. Ooops - splits it to two pages on Excel too.
What we run here is:
- Papyrus - the most efficient word processing and light desktop publishing application available (with integrated spreadsheet and database). No incentive to change to inferior products here (also available for Windows and Atari).
- SuperCalc 3 spreadsheet for DOS (anything that needs presentation quality is done on Papyrus).
- Mozilla 0.9.9 for OS/2 (also available for Windows and others).
- ZTree for OS/2 - XTree Gold clone (also available for Windows)
- Inhouse developed accounting apps (DOS)
- PMMail - about the best mail reader you can get anyway (also available for Windows).
- Kon - context highlighting text editor for programming and Web page development.
- StarOffice 5.1 for OS/2 - just occasionally to read an MS Office document (also available for Windows and Linux).
- PMView - super program for viewing and manipulating images, including crop and rescale, color balance and palette editing (also available for Windows).
- Embelish - full function drawing and image edit program (also available for Windows).
- Home Page - Web page generator - don't actually use this because I'm a control freak and use the Kon text editor.
- Vigilant accounting and POS, and Appgen accounting (both run in terminal session from Linux server) for customer support.
- PMFax LAN - used heavily for faxing directly from all applications.
- Zoc - modem cummunications (also availble for Windows).
- FTP-It - great FTP program for uploading Web pages and downloading drivers.
- Adobe Acrobat - v3.0 is starting to gripe now and then, so we may have to move to the Java version.
- Drafix CAD for DOS. Not much need for CAD, but this does the job when I do need it.
- Lots of minor programs and utilities.
The only functions we use Windows for is to read in camera images, run the scanner, and burn CD-ROMS. All these functions are available for OS/2 but our needs are so light we haven't bought the software.
I have no interest in games, DVD or music "sharing", so none of that is a problem.
I expect in a few years we may have to move at least partially to Linux desktop, but until Papyrus for Linux is released that isn't really an option - I'm just not willing to take that kind of productivity hit.
Oh, yes, now that we no longer use Netscape Navigator, we don't have lockups so we no longer have to reboot once a week.
We see no reason to move off OS/2
All the office computers run OS/2, but we do have a machine that has interchangeable hard disks that runs Windows 98 SE some of the time. It's up right now to print out an Excel contract where StarOffice OS/2 runs a signature line onto the next page.
What we run here is:
- Papyrus - the most efficient word processing and light desktop publishing application available (with integrated spreadsheet and database). No incentive to change to inferior products here (also available for Windows and Atari).
- SuperCalc 3 spreadsheet for DOS (anything that needs presentation quality is done on Papyrus).
- Mozilla 0.9.9 for OS/2 (also available for Windows and others).
- ZTree for OS/2 - XTree Gold clone (also available for Windows)
- Inhouse developed accounting apps (DOS)
- PMMail - about the best mail reader you can get anyway (also available for Windows).
- Kon - context highlighting text editor for programming and Web page development.
- StarOffice 5.1 for OS/2 - just occasionally to read an MS Office document (also available for Windows and Linux).
- PMView - super program for viewing and manipulating images, including crop and rescale, color balance and palette editing (also available for Windows).
- Embelish - full function drawing and image edit program (also available for Windows).
- Home Page - Web page generator - don't actually use this because I'm a control freak and use the Kon text editor.
- Vigilant accounting and POS, and Appgen accounting (both run in terminal session from Linux server) for customer support.
- PMFax LAN - used heavily for faxing directly from all applications.
- Zoc - modem cummunications (also availble for Windows).
- FTP-It - great FTP program for uploading Web pages and downloading drivers.
- Adobe Acrobat - v3.0 is starting to gripe now and then, so we may have to move to the Java version.
- Drafix CAD for DOS. Not much need for CAD, but this does the job when I do need it.
- Lots of minor programs and utilities.
The only functions we use Windows for is to read in camera images, run the scanner, and burn CD-ROMS. All these functions are available for OS/2 but our needs are so light we haven't bought the software.
I have no interest in games, DVD or music "sharing", so none of that is a problem.
I expect in a few years we may have to move at least partially to Linux desktop, but until Papyrus for Linux is released that isn't really an option - I'm just not willing to take that kind of productivity hit.
Oh, yes, now that we no longer use Netscape Navigator, we don't have lockups so we no longer have to reboot once a week.