[Gllug] Linux migration in small businesses

Jason Clifford jason at ukfsn.org
Mon Sep 1 13:55:41 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 14:36 +0100, Garry Heaton wrote:
> How easy is it to get small businesses (eg. 5-30 users) to switch from 
> slow/failing Windows/SBS/Exchange servers to Linux SAMBA/Postfix 
> equivalents? Anyone had much success in generating this kind of business? 
> I'm referring just to the servers, ie. running Windows XP with Linux/SAMBA 
> either within a workgroup or a domain.

The answer, as always, is "it depends upon what they actually use the
systems for and/or want from it".

If they are not using too many of the Exchange lock in features it
should be fairly easy.

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