On 02/02/10 01:37, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Feb 1, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Kaya Saman wrote:
Basically the company is small consisting of only 4 employees!
Currently they have 2 separate USB printers, 1 dot matrix, 1
multi-function. On top of that they use computers which are ancient
with max having 512MB RAM and 1.6GHz Celeron CPU's. They have no
means for backup and their accounting machine is not even connected
to the web!
*Should* their accounting machine be connected to "the web"??
Since it's MS Win I don't think so considering how poor security is
on that platform :-)
My point exactly. ;)
That said, though...the setup you're dealing with could be much
worse. I'm doing a little consulting job on the side right now,
modernizing the IT infrastructure of a small local retail store
chain. Their point-of-sale servers are decade-old 500MHz Pentium-III
machines running SCO UNIX.
No, I'm not kidding.
To their credit, however, these four machines been in daily use for
nearly ten years and they're still running. One had a motherboard
failure recently (that's how I came to be associated with them) but no
failures other than that.
I'm moving them to a VMware-based setup (virtual SCO servers, yay!)
now, and next I'll be looking at replacing their cash registers (which
are bog-standard, full-blown Windows XP desktop machines) with Sun Rays.
-Dave
Hahahah cool :-)
I'm actually trying to promote the Sun Ray in the country I'm in as no
one knows anything else other then MS Win XP coupled together to old
Pentium based systems. We'll see what happens but this is a start!
Regards,
Kaya
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