I setup a complete IT system for our small company (16-20 people) using mandrake Linux 9.1 (and some other stuff)
I'll see if I can write more about this, but I have to go now....
The summary is, things are working quite well, but there's a lot of things that are hard or impossible or unavailable at this moment. It does require a lot of ajusting when coming from windows....
L8r
Simon
Jamie Kerwick wrote:
With the success of My Mandrake 9.0 Intranet server, My boss recently expressed an interest in moving our entire company's IT from Windows servers & desktops to either:
A) a Totally linux based solution.
B) windows servers with Linux Clients C) Linux servers with windows desktops.
My question, well request really, is for any information, or suggestions of web-sites that may be of use when doing a business proposal for this. Plus any recommended software replacements plus recommendations of with linux distros to use would be very much appreciated (obviously I would like to use Mandrake as I have used this in the past.)
The systems we currently use are:
Win2k Servers using Active Directory (for authentication and also user information directory) DNS (Bind?) DHCP, Oracle 8i server (hosted on a cluster server) Cognos(reports from our oracle database) Exchange (email, calendar, meeting room booking, tasks etc..) MS Office 2k (obvious replacement being Open Office) Terminal Server, Remote Dial-in Users, Scan-file (scanned document management)
Additionally we want to use: Electronic faxing, Web Proxying, (squid?)
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