NFFC - 8:48 pm on Feb 20, 2002 (gmt 0)

Now it gets "real", integrating Linux into the business world.

We have a couple of additional staff coming on board, in our business staff equates to hardware+software=$. We are not adverse to spending money but we try and avoid fixed overheads at all costs. We view a Microsoft software solution as a fixed overhead, if we do zero business we still need to pay the costs. With each additional staff member this overhead increases and can start to get out of synch with the other fixed overheads, software and the need for better hardware to run it could become our largest overhead.

So, enter Linux. We brought a couple of new machines with the intention of moving the old ones over to Linux, duel booting linux/windows on one other and [forgive me] trying to work out how Apple are still in business [brand new G4, oh my, oh my!].

The stage was set, a bunch of new machines and Internet access, lets see what can be achieved............