Linux Office Dream Setup

[Jason Greenwood]

Ok guys, here's your chance. You tell me the very best way to do what I 
want to do and we'll most likely do it! I am looking for hardware input 
mainly as we are employing Paul William to help us deploy the eventual 
software and solution.

Want to run a 2 person office on Linux (with a view to adding 2-4 staff 
later). Would like to run attractive, modern thin clients on the 
desktop. Thin client ideas? They don't have to be ultra cheap (since we 
could buy used lower spec'd desktops to do the job) but we are always 
conscious of budget of course. We know what sort of sever specs we're 
after but we also want to be as 'wireless' as possible, from Internet 
access to printing to anything else we can make wireless! I HATE wiring. 
=) It's so old school anyway... any wireless stories/deployments greatly 
appreciated here.

Flat panels of course are almost de'rigeur these days aren't they? Any 
pitfalls/recommendations there? thinking 17in cuz it seems there is 
little price benefit going smaller than that. LCD would be nice but 
ouch, pricey. Are there slimline CRT's I don't know about or ALL those 
super slim small form factor monitors LCD's?

My business partner is sold on the idea of an exclusively Linux/OSS 
office but as he comes from a doze background I want to make this as 
painless as possible for him. Any gotcha's I should plan for?

We'll of course be running a Linux firewall and file server and maybe 
even an IMAP server for mail anywhere since my hosting company has caps 
on IMAP storage AFAIK.

I look forward to hearing from you all. I want to be a shining example 
of what a small Linux based office CAN be. The key here is style I 
guess. The gear needs to look nice as there will be business associates 
coming to the office and they WILL be basing part of their opinion of us 
on the gear we run.

Cheers all,

Jason