On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Bill Hazelwood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bhazelwood@delta-elevator.com">bhazelwood@delta-elevator.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<span><font face="Arial" size="2">- DHCP, DNS, PDC,
File, Email, Security, Backup, Print and Fax servers to be some flavour of
Linux</font></span>
</div></blockquote><div><br>By the way, even though I advocate planning and dollars and sense before you jump in, there are some quick wins that you can do as a skunk works out of the above set.<br><br>Examples are fully standards based services, such as DHCP, DNS, Fax, perhaps print and file serving. The users will not feel anything different, so there is no impact on them. You get more reliable services running, and you get your feet wet and start learning along the way.<br>
<br>Those can be done quickly and cheaply with minimal hardware. Just talk to NetDirect first and see their preference for a distro and whether both of you are likely to work together in the long term.<br><br>By clearing away those services, you pave the way for the harder ones in the future.<br>
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