On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Richard Victor Correia <richard@florix.net
wrote:
I told him that Linux can be used easily with few hours training for above mentioned things. I also explained the stability and cost effectiveness of it.
Now the question is, which distribution should we suggest? Which desktop environment? Which email client (closer to Outlook look and feel) ?
Distribution and desktop environment don't matter as much. Applications do matter. Moreover you need a knowledgeable person, usually the sys admin inside the organisation who will get along with the people, guide them and help them as and when needed. This is more important as compared to which distro or DE to choose. I've had experience where couple of accountants wanted to use KDE whereas rest of the people were happy with default of GNOME.