On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 19:41, Peter Ireland P.E. wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Craig White
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 6:55 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: not even a newbie
> 
> On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 12:33, Peter Ireland P.E. wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > 
> >
> > This is my first venture out of my self imposed microsoft cage so
> > please be gentle.
> >
> > 
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 
> >
> > Any thought would be gratefully accepted.
> ----
> My first thought
> 
> don't post in html
> 
> my second thought
> 
> sounds great - go for it - I doubt SPSS would pose any problems for
> SAMBA F/S
> 
> Craig
> Done, no more html I didn't know it was a problem, would you care to elaborate ?
> Thanks for the encouragement.
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not unless you come up with a question. I'm not very keen on getting
into a long winded discourse and provide a dissertation for someone that
hasn't even bothered to try to learn any of these things by trying them
out.

Craig