Networking

[columb]

There was a study a while back (done by IBM, so not totally impartial though) that showed that the cost of migrating to a "free" open source platform was really quite high, and in the long run it was cheaper (from a support point of view, Microsoft techies are cheap and cheerful, Linux techies are much rarer) to go with Windows...

Source please.

Cheers
Chris

 

[markmifsud]

I think the cost issue was where there was already a large Windows footprint with both client and server. Mind you, the Police reported savings in the £millions when they migrated from windows to Linux


http://www.debianhelp.org/node/12834

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2120421/west-yorks-police-pilots-linux-desktops

 

[Spinal]

Source please.

Cheers
Chris

Sorry - my faut, wrong company!

Microsoft, not IBM... though I was sure the lecturer mentioned IBm...

MS study: Win 2000 cheaper than Linux | Tech News on ZDNet

M.

 

[timskemp]

Not trying to bash what you said - just chipping in my experiences... and it's all based on 'G' and not 'N' wireless, so that may help too...

M.

N wireless is like G, but faster if it works, and more sucky when it doesn't. I'm on N here, it's fine with one laptop on at a time (so I've changed the key now and the kids use G...)

 

[timskemp]

My opinions would work along these possible scenarios.

Small Business Server on an ML110 or ML150 with mirror+spare. Pros - exchange, Cons - exchange...

2008 standard server on an ML110 with mirror+spare and Mailenable. Pros- cost, windows, Cons - no exchange...

Off the wall idea - ML110, Freenas, stack of drives, use Google Apps for mail...

My "home" rig here is running an Atom board with two drives, Windows 2008 std, mailenable - 65w of power but will happily max out a 100 meg network...

 

[columb]

My opinions would work along these possible scenarios.

Small Business Server on an ML110 or ML150 with mirror+spare. Pros - exchange, Cons - exchange...

2008 standard server on an ML110 with mirror+spare and Mailenable. Pros- cost, windows, Cons - no exchange...

Off the wall idea - ML110, Freenas, stack of drives, use Google Apps for mail...

My "home" rig here is running an Atom board with two drives, Windows 2008 std, mailenable - 65w of power but will happily max out a 100 meg network...

And where is a backup?

Cheers
Chris