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On 21/07/10 14:55, Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, james kilty wrote:On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 14:18 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote:One of my clients - a charity specialising in recycling furniture and electrical goods with shops in Paignton, Totnes, Newton Abbot, Bittaford and Tiverton have just dumped their Linux server I've been maintaining for them for the past 3 years, complete with off-site backups for a MS SBS 2008 server running Exchange.If you were maintaining it - how did they make the decision - obviously they did not consult you. Strange practice.Yes. Very strange, but there you go. This is the same organasation that runs a database in Access for each shop to do stock control - they wanted a bigger one to cover all shops at the same time and I proposed a web-based one built on OS, so it wouldn't require a central server on one office, but he had some conslutent in from Teignbridge DC who told him he needed MS Servers + Terminal Servers and so on... I can do without customers like that. He's welcome to his new microsoft world of pain. Gordon
I'd say the web based option would have been better, would have used less bandwidth. If he's got say 4 shops all connecting in via terminal services over a broadband link it's going to be a tad slow (maybe one machine, yeah that might work, but 4?). That's assuming one machine per shop.
Maybe he'll realise when it's too late, after forking out say £1000 for a server, £600 for the server OS, couple of grand for Office licenses etc.
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