Just my 2 cents but I think the GIS system is too specific. I would think that at
this point we need to keep fairly high level to appease as many appetites as
possible. We can certainly focus on specific area's later. I would think we'd
want StarOffice and a Web Browser, etc with information on specific applications
available. This might well include (meaning we should exclude) any of the
IBM/Lotus offerings. The only thing in favor of keeping anything from IBM/Lotus is
that I do think it would be nice to have a Web Server and associated applications.
That might mean that Apache would be better. I really see that (web serving) and
e-business as the single largest business use of Linux. I'm kind of thinking out
loud but...
Paul Lussier wrote:
> In a message dated: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 08:41:32 EST
> Bruce McCulley said:
>
> >If anybody can think of anything else that should be considered, please
> >call it out ASAP!
>
> I think the GIS system would be a great addition. Many towns are looking at
> moving into this area and are budgeting vast amounts of money for GIS systems.
> ARCINFO seems to be the leader in this area from the price point, though I
> know of several others which are supposedly better. Of course they all run on
> windows.
>
> Another thing you may want to include is a backup demo. There is a lot of
> software out there to do this. I personally am a fan of AMANDA, which can
> back up almost all known Unix systems, and with the combination of Samba, can
> also back up Windows systems as well. This would be a huge gain for many
> small businesses and towns. Most don't do backups, of if they do, are doing a
> very poor job at it, and usually running it from a Windows system using a
> propietary data format. Amanda would allow them to centralize all their
> backups to one location, and store them on tape using the native Unix dump
> facility for other Unix systems or in Gnu tar format for Linux and Windows
> clients.
>
> The other major advantage of Amanda over most backup utilities that I've found
> is that it can use a failover "holding disk". If there's something wrong with
> the tape drive (like someone forgot to change the tape :) the data gets
> written to a local drive on the backup server until someone flushes it to tape.
>
> Well, I could go on about amanda, but I won't :) But I think the generic
> backup capabilities of a Linux system might be of interest to anyone dependant
> upon computers and the data stored on them. It gives you that nice warm and
> fuzzy :)
> --
>
> Seeya,
> Paul
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