Anyone using linux and open-source software to run a small business set-up ?

We currently have 7 users connecting to a Microsoft small business server.
This gives us what we need for:

+ sharing files (word processed documents, pdfs, etc)
+ getting emails from outside
+ sending emails to outside
+ saving the emails and backing them up
+ sending internal emails
+ connecting to the internet for web surfing

There's probably a few other things  it does as well.

We run a mix of windows PCs and Macs - and probably always will do for our
workstations.



It often goes wrong and simple tasks like adding a new user seem to be
difficult (or easy to do incorrectly). There is also a price tag for all
this stuff - although the cost of learning about stuff and time spent
fiddling with stuff usually dwarfs any external paid costs.

What would a linux / open source set-up look like and is anybody actually
using such a set-up ?

Regards,

John Hyde

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