Somebody scribbled about [newbie] Moving from windows to linux in the enterprise >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.
I favor this (obviously) but think it is best approached in stages, with each defined function addressed in turn -- once for servers, then databases, etc. In other words, try and get one "module" of your overall IT converted to Linux and use it for a while, then attack the next module in turn. I wouldn't recommend a whole hog mass conversion. Conversion takes time and you need to keep both systems running in parallel so you can work the bugs out. As someone who has had some experience in data conversions (mostly with databases, Oracle and such) and also in client-server (mostly as a user, not as an administrator) I think Linux could do well in both situations. When I worked at Entex, for instance, we used Windows clients (Citrix for instance) which could be replaced with Linux versions (in fact I believe there is a Linux version of Citrix) for data presentment, reporting, and such. For your Internet needs (DNS,bind, email etc.) Linux is clearly going to be a better solution. Unfortunately, I've been in several work environments where I wanted to convert to Linux on the job and the IT people didn't think it was a good idea -- but then I'm not really an IT person -- most of my job experience has been in data entry & customer service & collections :). But I've done more IT stuff on the side with each job. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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