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 :)
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Seeya,
Paul
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