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Re: Wednesday, February 19, 2003
We are a small educational non-profit. I actually took out a Linux server when I started because I did not know it. We became an all MS shop. Nearly two years later the same old PII is running RH8 with a bare bones apache, mysql, and php server. It seeped in as a way for me to build custom intranet apps for our office and three other hospitals we work with. (it runs on port 8080 while the main site is ASP driven on IIS). Really it was a matter of MS Access did not work as a web back end because you had to take it down to add a table, add a field or edit a record each time. That time got to be huge when working with several projects in dev. stages. Mysql with phpmyadmin allows me to leave existing apps running without a problem without having to go through the joy of another MS licensing scheme for SQL Server. The plan is to consolidate all of out website to the Linux server. (I received approval to purchase a faster server) The more things I find to use the linux server for the more comfortable the office gets with having it around. We run terminal services, exchange, and Intellisync Server software so I am currently evaluating Linux based alternatives for these functions. Change is a slow process however.
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