Hello,

I am hoping this doesn't get flamed.. And am sure its came up, a thousand times.

My Manageing Director, wants me to set-up a server for the office, its main role will be to run as a:-
"web server, PHP/Mysql",
"Sun Accounts Package",
"Daily Backup Server, for all winNT,2k machines the office"
"Goldmine, the contacts management system"

I have the choice of ether winNT4 or Redhat9, the server we will be using is a Dell Poweredge 4300 , the server was bought from another company that had it setup as webserver using NT4 and it still has there old settings and configeration.

My knowledge on setting up a NT4 or Reconfiguring one is nothing, but my RH9 knowledge i know i can set one up, with webserver/samba no problem.

What my MD is thinking is just leaving the webserver as is and just start using it, even tho the server is setup as a webserver for another company thats now gone bust.

Is Rehat9 support good, for dell's? this machine has 2 or more processors installed with 512Mb of memory.

I know I say nothing, why don't you backup it first and try BSD? if it doesn't work, then try RH. If you couldn't setup the redhat server, then restore the backup.

(It may waste a few days, it depend if your job give enough time for that)

going by the softwares that u r going to use winNT is ur best choice

its not that u cant use linux, but somehow in this situation winnt seems to be the best choice for ur org

but u can give linux RedHat a try

it can do all the jobs that u have asked for

web server, PHP/Mysql - inbuilt support

Sun Accounts Package - ?

Daily Backup Server, for all winNT,2k machines the office - peace

Goldmine, the contacts management system - ?