Ok guys here's a question, how hard would it be to stick a Linux server on a
Windows NT4 domain. I work for a fairly large Engineering firm whose main HQ
are located in Nashville, TN. We have offices in Houston, Phoenix, Deerfield,
Nashville, and New Orleans. Now with MIcrosofts new licensing scheme I've
been talking with the IT over in Deerfield about Linux, I've talked him into
downloading Red Hat and giving it a try, which he did do. Though he has yet
to install it. Through my talking with him he has also passed on my comments
and whatnot to the "main" IT guys in Nashville. They are now throwing the
Linux ball around the court up there on possibly switching to Linux on all
servers in the company. We can't do a full switch of workstations since
Autodesk and Bently don't make versions for the Linux platform.
So my question is, I would like to take a spare 450 that we have in our office
and install Red Hat and configure that as a server to run with the existing 4
NT4 servers in my office. How hard would that be? This is a test to show how
simple and quickly this can be done. Also, one server is running Exchange
5.5 another is running SQL. Is there anything equal to Exchange on the Linux
platform?
So what do you guys think, could I do it? My linux knowledge in the server
area is pretty slim. But I'd like to show that it can coexist with Windows
etc on the same network.
-J
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