Re: Help in Holland

[Rich Perna <richp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Steve & Brenda Williams <nixb@iserv.net>

| 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 :-)  ).

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
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.

Rich