[H-GEN] AN OFFBEAT QUESTION

[Rick Phillips]

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On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 10:37, Gary Price (ICT) wrote:
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    Rick
    from your description the installation would be in breach of  licence.
    They would need to install W2k Server. This costs some thousands of dollars,
    and you need to buy sufficient client licences (they come in batches of 5).
    Also a UPS, a different antivirus protection, backup etc etc.
    Whether you can replace the function of the W2K machine with Linux depends,
    among other things, on whether the
    database app you mentioned has a server that runs on the machine holding the
    database files. If so, that server
    would need to be portable to Linux. This situation is probably a common one,
    eg, among small growing organisations -
    mediacl centres, real estate agents etc. Usually they are not prepared for
    how much it will cost to
    expand their network to cope with growth. Good luck.
    
    Gary Price

You picked it in one.  The "correct" solution is unaffordable to them at
the moement!

You have confirmed what I thought was the situation - they will have to
find a way - NT 4 is a cheaper solution - while it lasts that is.

Rick
    
    
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