[sdw2003] Recipe for splitting the network/business

[Domain Support]

Take a look at hosted services, 10 users would be a great fit.  Offload the
backend burden to someone else, just make sure you get a provider with a
good SLA.  With a decent connection, exchange, sharepoint, et al works very
nicely and you all but eliminate hardware and install costs.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:59 PM, BMF <badmotherfsckr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Joe Dirt <joedirt909 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Buying this business is taking all but the food on the table, so he will
> > spend on hardware and services he needs (it's in the plan), but wants to
> > minimize expenses for a few months.
> >
>
>
> As do we all.
>
>
> > Does anyone have a recipe for doing something like this?
> >
>
> Only moving 10 users? Since everything is going to have to be touched and
> set up from scratch anyway and he only has DNS, email, and file shares to
> migrate maybe they should consider a Linux migration since those things are
> what it has done best for years. Licensing all new software plus firewall,
> antivirus, and the inevitable cleanups are not exactly in line with
> minimizing expenses.
>

Yeah, migrate to Linux, that is a recipe... for disaster.


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