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On 21/07/10 14:55, Gordon Henderson wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, james kilty wrote: > >> On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 14:18 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote: >>> One of my clients - a charity specialising >>> in recycling furniture and electrical goods with shops in Paignton, >>> Totnes, Newton Abbot, Bittaford and Tiverton have just dumped their >>> Linux >>> server I've been maintaining for them for the past 3 years, complete >>> with >>> off-site backups for a MS SBS 2008 server running Exchange. >> >> If you were maintaining it - how did they make the decision - obviously >> they did not consult you. Strange practice. > > Yes. Very strange, but there you go. This is the same organasation that > runs a database in Access for each shop to do stock control - they It's amazing how creative people can be with having MS Access do things it was never really intended to do. The major problem is that everyone needs read/write access to all the files involved. It then is quite possible for several people simply looking at the database to corrupt it. > wanted a bigger one to cover all shops at the same time and I proposed a > web-based one built on OS, so it wouldn't require a central server on > one office, but he had some conslutent in from Teignbridge DC who told > him he needed MS Servers + Terminal Servers and so on... Even doing this the "Windows way" I can't see the relevance of Terminal Servers. > I can do without customers like that. He's welcome to his new microsoft > world of pain. Wonder if he bought all the right CALs or knows when he will need to buy more :) Can't see how MS Exchange would be much help with stock control either.
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