Re: Advice - solution for a company server

From: Doug Holtz (dholtzNOSPAM_at_wi.rr.com)
Date: 09/28/05 

Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:45:17 GMT

"Soft" <happsz(at)o2.pl> wrote in message
news:4337fd29$1@news.home.net.pl...
> Hello,
> I need to estabiilish a new solution for my company (rather small). We now
> need a company server that should handle 10 workstations - to provide
> users
> with opportuninty of sharing their project files and to set their own
> e-mail
> accounts on it. We already have a proper machine (as I was told), but I
> don't know which software will be good enough for this task, and of course
> it shall be not expensive - we are only interested in the genuine
> software.
> My colleagues told me about some Linux OS, but we don't want to pay for
> the
> server administration right now, and no-one in my team knows this systems.
> Can you help me to choose a right software?
> Shall Windows Small Business Server 2003 be a good solution (can a common
> computer user operate it?), or do we really need an adminitrator to handle
> one of the Unix systems?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Hailie
>

Hailie;

In addition to Windows SBS, look at Novell SBS based on SuSE Linux. I have
not set one up, but Novell's past SBS based on Netware had everytthing
needed. The Microsoft SBS is very nice, as you asked about and others have
commented.

Doug