I have made the jump to Intrepid Ibex 8.10 a while ago. However, I am not able to completely convert because there are some apps that are still giving me trouble. In my job in need to use the following:

• Visual Source Safe
• PeopleTools 8.9
• Exchange
• Cognos
• SVN
• ssh and other stuff relating..

Well I have most of this going either by using Codeweavers crossover or linux tools:

• For the exchange stuff i am using Evolution which is not great but it is doing the job.
• VSS does seem to run under crossover with no trouble at all
• Cognos is running under ie6 on crossover because of the activeX requirements.
• svn and ssh stuff seems to work better than it did under windows. Just being able to mount and ssh share is sweet ie. sshfs://username@server/dir and away you go. You can also bookmark these shares for quick access.

The only thing i have not been able to convert over to linux is PeopleTools, which is getting looked at by the crossover guys atm. For now i have it running under Suns new implementation of VirtualBox which is running sweet as and has not crashed once ;) . I do admit that it is a "little" more effort to get things up and running, but I enjoy learning. So as long as this reigns true I will keep using Ubuntu.

I am with you.. We had been trying to use word docs for our documentation for some time but were unable to manage and track faults or bugs within applications. It was also a pain having to guess what document had the information that you were after, other than resorting to using yahoo desktop search or some other third party tool. So we went to trac, which has a wiki, ticket system subversion integration and runs sweet with the mod-python integration. Now all error and updates are tracked and the wiki "amazingly" supports intext searching!! At the very least you should have a look at some sort of wiki tool if not trac.