This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_002D_01C3365E.EF6168B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello all, This is my first venture out of my self imposed microsoft cage so please be gentle. I am an outside technical consultant for several Microsoft-only business clients in Tucson. The light-bulb finally turned on and I would like to begin to offer a different server OS option to my business clients. Some of my clients are still in the 10-30 user peer to peer network environment running Win9X, 2000 or XP workstations. What I would like to offer them is the ability to centralize file services, backup, and perhaps other centralized features on a dedicated NON Microsoft server. One business is asking for suggestions “as we speak” and I am thinking of suggesting a server class box ( Dell/IBM/sever) with Red Hat + Samba as an alternative to the $1,400 cd-rom (Microsoft small business server) The key factors for the client are easy centralized backups and central word/excel document storage for approx 25 users. One last factor is that they also run SPSS so I will have to talk to tech support about file record locking etc unless someone here knows about SPSS file sharing. Any thought would be gratefully accepted. Sincerely Peter Ireland P.E. Former President Tucson Computer Society ------=_NextPart_000_002D_01C3365E.EF6168B0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hello all,

 

This is my first venture out of my self imposed microsoft cage so = please be gentle.

 

I am an outside technical consultant for several Microsoft-only = business clients in Tucson.  The = light-bulb finally turned on and I would like to begin to offer a different server = OS option to my business clients.  Some of my clients are still in the 10-30 user peer to peer = network environment running Win9X, 2000 or XP workstations.  What I would like to offer them is the ability to = centralize file services, backup, and perhaps other centralized features on a = dedicated NON Microsoft server.

 

One business is asking for suggestions “as we speak” = and I am thinking of suggesting a server class box ( Dell/IBM/sever) with Red Hat + Samba = as an alternative to the $1,400 cd-rom (Microsoft small business server)  The key factors for the client = are easy centralized backups and central word/excel document storage for approx = 25 users.  One last factor is = that they also run SPSS so I will have to talk to tech support about file = record locking etc unless someone here knows about SPSS file = sharing.

 

Any thought would be gratefully = accepted.

 

Sincerely

Peter Ireland P.E.

Former President Tucson Computer Society =

 

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