Re: Advice - solution for a company server

From: Imhotep (Imhotep_at_nospam.net)
Date: 09/27/05 

Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:10:13 -0400

"Soft" <happsz(at)o2.pl> wrote:

> 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

The good thing about linux is you can pay someone to set it up for you and
just let it run, and run, and run and run....

Personally, I would go with Linux before anything Microsoft....

Im

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