[CLUE-Tech] My transition

[Mike Staver]

Thanks to everyone so far who has offered advice.  A few things I can
add are: About the suggestion to get chummy with the IT/IS department -
I am exactly half of our department :)  I set up our production
webservers in a cluster running Red Hat linux with apache.  They've been
running great for over a year now, and prompted management to take a
long hard look at the cost savings there.  We bought a boxed version of
Red Hat 6.2, and then 7.1, and as far as I can see, that's been the best
money we've spent so far.  

The other IT guy I work with is completely into windows, that explains
our exchange mail server, active directory, visual source safe, etc.  He
is coming around however - he had a personal little web server set up on
our network, and when the code red stuff was taking out ever IIS box it
could find, his server was badly infected.  Also, at about the same
time, he got a nasty virus on it besides code red.  Not to mention, it
would stop processing .asp pages for no reason.  So, I installed Red Hat
7.1 on his reformatted hard drive, and he couldn't be happier with the
performance and stability (aside from the day that he got hacked because
we left and old version of wu-ftp running on his box)  

So, now it's just a matter of me finding compatible software with the
products we already have in place and have been using for several
years.  I think I can get the HTML editor covered with the choices you
guys have presented, and yes, I have searched freshmeat pretty
extensively looking for a visual source safe and sql server solution.  I
haven't found anything that will work for me at this point.  :(  I can
probably do enough reading on how to get samba to work with active
directory, but I had tried this in the past with no success, so I'm kind
of leary.  Yes, we have a mixed win2k environment. The mixed stemming
from needing a few NT4 boxes to authenticate against the win2k server.
Yeah, I could use VMware again for some of this, but then, I'm still
using windows for some stuff, so I must still have a license for win 2k
to be legal.  
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                                -Mike Staver
                                 staver at fimble.com
                                 mstaver at globaltaxnetwork.com
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