I was in the same situation and found that I just didn't have the time to deal with it effectively. We crossed paths with the folks at mxlogic and they convinced us to give their service a try. They have a small army of people maintaining a defense against spam. It's worked out great for us and only costs about 50 bucks a year. There's no way you can beat that unless you don't really have anything else to do.
I honestly don't see why MS Office carries so much weight. Is that really all anyone uses a computer for besides checking mail and surfing?
What I want to know is, where are all the engineering applications? The OSS tools available for common engineering tasks leave much to be desired. Try finding a Linux-friendly replacement for SolidWorks or OrCAD, for example. Sure, you can find some high-end stuff like Pro-E and Cadence but I'm talking about the affordable apps that have found their way into small and medium sized-businesses.
I'm sorry, but the OSS apps in the CAD department have a long way to go. And, it's not just cad either. Consider buying an FPGA development kit, a DSP development board, or any number of hardware development kits - they all come with Windows software to develop the code on or come with only Windows device drivers.
I use OSS as much as possible but when it comes to this kind of stuff, the choices are poor.
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I was in the same situation and found that I just didn't have the time to deal with it effectively. We crossed paths with the folks at mxlogic and they convinced us to give their service a try. They have a small army of people maintaining a defense against spam. It's worked out great for us and only costs about 50 bucks a year. There's no way you can beat that unless you don't really have anything else to do.
I honestly don't see why MS Office carries so much weight. Is that really all anyone uses a computer for besides checking mail and surfing?
What I want to know is, where are all the engineering applications? The OSS tools available for common engineering tasks leave much to be desired. Try finding a Linux-friendly replacement for SolidWorks or OrCAD, for example. Sure, you can find some high-end stuff like Pro-E and Cadence but I'm talking about the affordable apps that have found their way into small and medium sized-businesses.
I'm sorry, but the OSS apps in the CAD department have a long way to go. And, it's not just cad either. Consider buying an FPGA development kit, a DSP development board, or any number of hardware development kits - they all come with Windows software to develop the code on or come with only Windows device drivers.
I use OSS as much as possible but when it comes to this kind of stuff, the choices are poor.
It'd be really cool to switch to nuclear though..