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Advice - solution for a company server Soft 09-26-2005
Posted by Soft on September 26, 2005, 9:50 am
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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



Posted by Imhotep on September 26, 2005, 6:10 pm
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"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

Posted by Steven L Umbach on September 26, 2005, 7:50 pm
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SBS 2003 would be a goof choice and it also comes with a version on
Exchange. There are a number of good books out about Windows 2003 Server and
SBS 2003 and a number of newsgroups with very helpful people. Linux is not
the best choice for a managed environment if you have Windows 2000 and
particularly Windows XP Pro computers. You can do a lot to have consistent
security policy and user environment in an Active Directory domain much you
will probably not appreciate at first. While the cost of Linux is attractive
you need to think about total cost of ownership and not just the cost of the
operating system. If someone wanted to create a DNS server that would not be
part of an AD domain I would suggest that they use Linux. It is not that
difficult to install and maintain Windows SBS but I would say that to get it
set up you may want to invest in the help of a professional or buy a good
book on SBS to educate yourself to see if you or someone that works with you
feels up to it. You might want to post in one of the SBS newsgroups for more
opinions on that. --- Steve



> 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
>



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