From: "Robert Comer" 

> No kidding...are you thinking about making this happen soon or just
> some day in the future? I sure would like to have a good consultant
> for Notes when I get ready to upgrade.

Some day in the future hopefully.  I just don't think it would be prudent
to move intentionally right now.

btw, you should see how well the AS/400 runs Notes! (it's a bit expensive
if we didn't have the 400 for other things though!  I think they target it
a LARGE shops as even our puny 400 could do quite a few users.)  It's quite
fast and we haven't had so much as a hiccup since I moved it there, and the
live backups are all handled by other sw we already had.

> After this server is up and running I need to get acquainted with
> Linux. I think I'm going to stick to Wintel on this server as I've got
> to order and get it online fairly quickly. I try not to let things get
> to the panic stage but the PTB usually wait until that point.

Both things sound prudent to me.  I'm trying to get up to speed on Linux
myself, and I just downloaded FreeBSD yesterday and am going to see how
that does on various server tasks we do. (we don't do web serving as a
rule, though a do occasionally use the 400 for that for special stuff.)

Cost is my biggest complaint with Windows for internal stuff, so if the
budget is there, it would be a no-brainer for me too. I am kind of itching
to put in a Linux server for something though, if only to tell division
that I'm progressive rather than just a status quo type. (They know that
already, but reinforcement always helps.)

>I try not to let things get
> to the panic stage but the PTB usually wait until that point.

Ah, yes, the perception of the PTB that we can do anything like this
immediately, ain't it fun? 

- Bob Comer


"Richard B."  wrote in message
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> On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:10:16 -0500, "Robert Comer"
>  wrote:
>
> >You have me close by.   (and I know some good outside consultants
locally
> >as well, I'll probably end up working for them some day.)
>
> No kidding...are you thinking about making this happen soon or just
> some day in the future? I sure would like to have a good consultant
> for Notes when I get ready to upgrade.
>
> >OS400 is what we run (and Win2000S on an IXA/xSeries server, they are
> >interconnected). There's no other operating system like it, but it's
quite
> >easy to master. Our AS/400 is 1 generation to old to run a Linux
partition.
> >(not that I'd run Linux on it for anything other than play stuff...)
>
> After this server is up and running I need to get acquainted with
> Linux. I think I'm going to stick to Wintel on this server as I've got
> to order and get it online fairly quickly. I try not to let things get
> to the panic stage but the PTB usually wait until that point.
>
> - Richard

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