I'm sold on Linux, even though I'm currently posting this from my Win2k partition. I would love to be able show the bosses what packages like Applix and Star Office can really do, and how very hard it would be for the resident script kiddies to banjax a Linux system.
If you can possibly manage it, do it the Russian way. Get it going, check it out, then promise it. Throughout our development I have been surprised at how easily some projects work out and produce so much more than I'd expected and much quicker, and also how slowly and badly other equally promising things have gone. Having your mission-critical email not working because you have used a CNAME instead of an A record in your DNS, or something like that, is something you need to be sure of avoiding. Here you very much need an organised support service, or a guru you are sure can and will sort things out. It is not easy to spot your own mistakes, and as in programming an innocuous change made to some part of the system can have unexpected repercussions somewhere else. Sometimes only taking effect on the next reboot, six months later! -- Christopher Dawkins, Felsted School, Dunmow, Essex CM6 3JG 01371-820527 or 07798 636725 cchd@felsted.essex.sch.uk