-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks all for the suggestions. I've got some ideas to go off of. My plan is to install Red Hat 7.2 (that's supposed to be good, right?) on his home computer. In general I expect that unless there is something seriously wrong with our existing infrastructure it would not pay to migrate the whole thing over especially in these lean times. As a corporate programmer, I would normally expect to gain these sort of cost savings by implementing free license software for *new* projects. It doesn't nessessarily pay to retrofit an existing enterprise. Anyhow, I know that server side application deployment is loads easier and cheaper to maintain than client side. It just so happens that Linux and other *nix happen to work well in those environments. Windows less so (though not impossible). Anyway, Dean's a thrifty guy and he'll appreciate the opportunity to save some cash. He also understand that server-side, backroom things don't have to have a Windows GUI on them to be good. I figure that if he can get along with a nice GUI, do e-mail and stuff he'll be set. Right now his W2K install is all putzed out so this is a great time to try something else. It's not as if the machine is busy doing something else right now. Hey, does anyone have any contacts with the other council members? I've met Natalie and I haven't even spoke to anyone else. I did get to say hi to R.T. once (and I didn't even tell him I was running against him) but I suppose he's way too busy being mayor and all. Biernat's my council member so maybe I can corner him sometime (I don't think I'd ever get to touch his machine). So who do you know in government? Heck, how about state government? That's still accessible to real people. Joshua b. Jore Minneapolis Ward 3, precinct 10 http://www.greentechnologist.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (OpenBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8Ti92fexLsowstzcRAk9NAJ486XztOhKVO9+QPJS/d4IO0GXi/wCgqn+e gKRYGBaVJyvvQZaZpnfS14g= =jZZA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----