Re: Help in Holland

[Adam <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>| My new place of employment is looking at purchasing a new server, and
>| they are considering a Linux server. (To do file and print sharing along
>| with IP masquerading.)
>FYI, you can purchase a Dell PowerEdge server (on the web site, even!) with
>RH Linux pre-installed.  It comes with 90 days of support, and after that
>you can either purchase a contract or do it 'per-incident' at $95 a pop
>(after 90 days, you most likely won't have to worry about it :-)  ).

I'd be very interested in exactly what their support agrreement covers, I 
doubt it is the addition of more software (i.e. IPX networking.)  They
probably just help you configure what they provided.  I assume your Novell
net uses IPX,  or have you switched to IP?

>Additionally, the Compaq Prosignia 720, ProLiant 1200 and 3000 are all
>certified by Compaq to work with Linux.  One of the engineers there I spoke
>to said Linus uses a ProLiant 3000 for testing, and that all three of those
>servers are supported "out-of-the-box" (i.e., you acquire a recent copy of

ALR Revolution servers work out of the box as well.

>Linux, and it ships with drivers necessary to support those machines).
>If you're talking getting a consultant to set it up/service it, I can tell
>you right now it would be much cheaper to just upgrade to NetWare 4.11/5.0.

I'd go to Caldera's web site,  they sell a full fledged Novel server for Linux
that is supposedly PnP and support NDS (I believe) and all of Novels other
proprietary crap.  It has Gui admin tools so your current Novel admins shouldn't
have much of a problem with it.