Get Your OS House in Order Conway AR

Posted by : Jim Aspinwall

Your SOHO business is expanding. It has almost outgrown what used to be the spare bedroom at home, or the shared space in the local office park, and so have your computing needs. If you've already grown into a larger office space, you need to be sure your infrastructure is stable.

If you are like a lot of folks, your present operating systems are two to three revisions behind, and it's time for a change to get you through the next couple of years.There are a lot of options here, and what you choose may make or break your business. Sharing data between two or three PCs in a peer-to-peer network is relatively easy and quick, but when you get beyond 10 users, it makes sense to leave the desktops alone and let a server handle the shared-resources load. Consideration must be given to server software, present staff expertise, and any necessary training or new personnel. It is likely that the acting in-house techie who's also working in marketing or shipping will have to make a career choice: Step up to network engineering and administration, or step aside and let the boss hire an IT professional or a consulting firm.

When most of us think home- or small-business operating systems, we're thinking Microsoft, but it is not the only choice. And with the dawn of Windows 2000, with its enterprise-level complexity and compatibility issues, Microsoft seems to be ignoring the small office network. On the desktop side, Windows Millennium Edition ...

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