Martijn @ opensource

For over a year I've been working for a large IT company in the Netherlands, the name is not relevant... some might recognize this situation though.

We are a Microsoft partner and ofcourse, all laptops and desktops (and mobiles) run on Windows Xp/Vista/Mobile. I work in the ECM field with products like IBM FileNet and Kofax Capture, and on my department we run a lot of different software packages and tools to be able to do our work.

Unfortunately the company wants us to run their customized and limited images, this for workplace management and support reasons. From an administration point of view, I totally agree with this. If an employee calls the support desk and complains that his laptop is having problems, you want to be able to have a managable and familiair image on that laptop. This is most likely a normal policy for most IT companies with more than a 100 employees. So no argument there...

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This time not a real opensource article, I wanted to share a little experience with you. Recently my parent were considering buying a small and simple pc to surf on the web, send and receive e-mail and play simple games (my dad is addicted to Mahjongg Master 5)...

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