On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 12:33, Peter Ireland P.E. wrote:
> Hello all,
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> This is my first venture out of my self imposed microsoft cage so
> please be gentle.
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> I am an outside technical consultant for several Microsoft-only
> business clients in Tucson.  The light-bulb finally turned on and I
> would like to begin to offer a different server OS option to my
> business clients. Some of my clients are still in the 10-30 user peer
> to peer network environment running Win9X, 2000 or XP workstations. 
> What I would like to offer them is the ability to centralize file
> services, backup, and perhaps other centralized features on a
> dedicated NON Microsoft server.
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> One business is asking for suggestions “as we speak” and I am thinking
> of suggesting a server class box ( Dell/IBM/sever) with Red Hat +
> Samba as an alternative to the $1,400 cd-rom (Microsoft small business
> server)  The key factors for the client are easy centralized backups
> and central word/excel document storage for approx 25 users.  One last
> factor is that they also run SPSS so I will have to talk to tech
> support about file record locking etc unless someone here knows about
> SPSS file sharing.
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> Any thought would be gratefully accepted.
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My first thought

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my second thought

sounds great - go for it - I doubt SPSS would pose any problems for
SAMBA F/S

Craig