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to: Joe Barr
from: Geo.
date: 2003-06-09 21:56:00
subject: Re: The Wrong Choice: After picking NT, Trampoline firm leaps to Linux

From: "Geo." 

"Joe Barr"  wrote in message
news:pan.2003.06.09.20.24.29.445197{at}austin.rr.com...

>  At the time, Timmis served as the
> company's Windows administrator. The firm used Sageline 50 for accounting
> and Windows 98 on the desktop, served by an NT file server. They
> implemented a fat client network that had evolved with the business,
> expanding about 30% annually.
>
> Soon, the company began to experience stability issues with Windows 98 and
> inherent problems with Sageline 50, because its access database wasn't
> robust enough.

oh...  my....   god... you can't be serious? A company that's growing 30%
per year running an accounting system on an access database and he thought
term server would be a solution? Good thing they hired a linux admin
instead of letting this guy play admin again..

Geo. (oh wait it gets better, he picked sendmail!!)

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