Bugga!! Not a complete solution?? No business functionality?? And M$ is/does??????? Hmmmmmmmmmm....... ========================= Dunedin seeks Win 2K servers http://www.idg.net.nz/webhome.nsf/NL/B9FA93C309884265CC256C13000B200F
Darren Greenwood, Auckland Dunedin City Council is tendering for Windows 2000 servers as part of an operating system upgrade needed to handle a new $750,000 document management system. The council presently has a one main Novell server and a couple of smaller Novell-based computers. Linux servers also perform data communications network monitoring, but run no business applications. IS manager Mike Harte says three or four Compaq servers are being sought, but a decision concerning Windows 2000 or XP software on the desktops -- the council has 500 PCs -- has yet to be made. The council comes under a government Microsoft volume licensing agreement. The Novell servers would remain, at least for now, carrying out file and print functions. But Harte says the "technology design" of the current $100,000 upgrade has not yet been made and he could not comment on their longer-term future. "We haven't made a decision one way or the other." Linux could come into play in future, though Harte says it is too early to suggest where the council might use open source. "We certainly won't be rolling out Linux to be the basis of our office automation technology, certainly not in the short term. But we will be assessing it for the mid- to long term," he says. By this he means the next two or three years. "[Linux is] just an operating system. It doesn't give business functionality. I don't choose databases and operating systems on their own sake."
