Ian P. Mills Technical Support Manager Flintshire Education ICT Unit (Providing one-stop-shop IT services to all Schools) We are about to look at Linux basically to do most of the below, as an alternative to Windows 2000 on the networks in the schools of our county....We currently have Windows NT on all our servers, and the impending change to Windows 2000 means there is going to be a big change and much training over 12 to 18 months (if we are to do it properly and provide an adequate level of IT support to our schools), and therefore is a perfect opportunity to look at alternative (and lower cost?) solutions. A couple of my team are really keen on the possibility of Linux - we would also be interested if anyone else has SIMS etc. running on Suse Linux already.....the kinds of problems and support issues involved...... _______________________________________________________________________ In reply to..... Me! Chris Cowsley Head of IT Hitchin Boys' School Hoping to use Linux instead of NT as a SIMS server, to route packets between Ethernet and Token Ring networks, and to cache Internet traffic locally so that we can run full class Internet without squeezing casual users out of the ISDN bandwidth. Evaluating it as an alternative to scores of expensive Windows 95 or Windows 2000 terminals, and Star Office as an alternative to Microsoft Office on scores of terminals - saving thousands of pounds in licence fees! Has anybody been there already?