[Gllug] slightly OT - linux consultancy enquiry

[Pavel Bradut Boghita]

First of all sorry for this longish posting and I do apologise if this is the 
wrong place to ask about this things.

I just came back from signing papers for a new flat I am renting and talking 
with the estate agent it turns out that he is also some sort of the technical 
guy for the office. They bought various gear themselves and he configured a 
little network there on windows 98 with tcp/ip. He mentioned that he plans to 
upgrade to Windows 2000 because they want VPN set up between the two offices 
of the same firm which are at different locations. 
On both offices they have ADSL with a router provided by BT which also acts 
as the gateway. There is no file server, he does the backup for the whole 
network, manually on his pc.
I did suggest that he may want to consider other options like Linux, and 
Debian was my recommendation to him, based on my personal experience with the 
system.
In this context I mentioned that he could put the licence money to better use 
by paying a consultant to set the things up for him, a file server, VPN 
whatever they run at the moment.

I couldn't really tell him how much this kind of consultancy would cost him, 
so I am hoping that people on this list could give me an idea.

Regards, 

Bradut

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