----- Original Message -----
From: "David Mandala" <david.mandala@developonline.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: Linux for small business


| Sounds like you've gotten a lot of good advice. But there is more money
| to be saved by going a slightly different path. Put Linux on the
| fileserver with qmail or postfix running and Linux on the firewall.
| Ditch the Win95-Win98 OS's and the office software and install either

I don't think ditching those are a possibility from what I understand.
Office software in this case probably means "proprietary" software
specifically written for what their business is and only runs on Windows...

| Redhat, Mandrake or SuSe as the primary desktop OS, install OpenOffice
| and Evolution. There is all the software needed for an office avalible
| on Linux now so they save $$$ at all levels.
|
| If they move to a linux only environment they can have an ldap server
| for the company and gain more speed from the hardware they have. They
| will not need SAMBA (even if it is a cool app) and just use NFS. With
| some simple configuration they can have their home directories follow
| them around the office, so they can use ANY machine in the office to
| work from as they need to.
|
| Much less need of virus protection since Linux while not completely
| immune from them is MUCH less effected by them.
|
| Cheers,
|
| Davidm
|
| On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 13:38, Terence Chang wrote:
| > Hi All:
| >
| > I only have experience on linux for desktop use 5% of
| > my time. My friend would like to know if they can use
| > Linux for the small business. This is what they have.
| >
| > 1. 20 PCs with either Win95 and Win98 installed.
| > 2. A 7MB DSL line goes into the office.
| > 3. One DSL/Router/Hug to shared the internet to every
| > PCs.
| > 4. One dual PIII 600 512MB memory server with Win2000
| > and a shareware email server.
| >
| > This is what they need.
| > 1. A firewall to secured the intranet
| > 2. A mail server that can sent and receive company's
| > email
| > 3. A File server, so they can share the files
| > (samba?).
| > 4. Every employee will need to logon to the network to
| > access internet/intranet. Is it something like domain
| > controller, Active Directory and LDAP in NT
| > environment?
| > 5. Of course Apache Web Server and MySQL and PHP for
| > internal web site. (I cna do this)
| > 6. Virus protection.
| >
| > My friend try to cut the cost by not using MS
| > solutions (MS SQL, MS Exchange, MS ISA, IIS, etc).
| > What Linux Package should he buy to get all those
| > capabilities? They are not going to get rid of win 95
| > and 98, because some account software are installed.
| >
| > Is it difficult to setup that up? What will be the
| > average price for all this? I think I will be the
| > person to do this. It is a challenge to me though. :-)
| > Can you do all this on that Dual PIII server?
| >
| > I use Mandrake as my second desktop, but i have never
| > setup firewall, router and mail server on Linux. Can
| > anyone provide some resource that I can check out?
| >
| > Thank you for help!
| >
| > =====
| > Terence Chang
| > peanutlen@yahoo.com
| >
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