Re: Say NO NO NO to Wal-Mart!!!

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Albert Wagner wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 17:09:23 -0700
> Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> And there is more to cost than purchase price.  Most of the cost of 
>> computer systems in in the setup, operation, and maintenance costs.

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> Poor Bob thinks that the trouble involved in keeping an MS network
> running is universal.

It is Albert.  I run an almost exclusively Linux web hosting business
with a couple of Win/2K laptops and a single high performance Win/2k
tower that runs the Adobe suite and Macromedia Dreamweaver.

The windows machines do not require any additional support from a
network point of view.  I don't run file sharing, email or other server
style network applications on my MS boxes.  They are cheap web browsers,
game machines and/or dedicated printing/design stations.

The cost for network access is all on the linux boxes that do the server
applications ( and in the router that faces the internet ).  The only
additional work was a few lines in a router ACL to prevent external boxes
from initiating a connection to the Win2k machines.

If you run file sharing or windows domain servers then you have other
problems.  That's like running naked through the woods while carrying
a sign saying "I squeel like a pig..." (<--"Deliverance" movie reference)