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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.uoregon.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!cabell.vcu.edu!csc3dmd From: csc3dmd@cabell.vcu.edu (Dean M. Deaver) Subject: Question about BSD as a networking solution Message-ID: <1994Feb8.210500.21327@cabell.vcu.edu> Organization: Virginia Commonwealth University Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 21:05:00 GMT Expires: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 05:00:00 GMT Lines: 19 My situation: I'm a 3rd year comp.sci. student working for a small auto recycling firm. I have very little experience (at this point) in networking. Hopefully I can pursue a career in it. My problem: The company I work for runs an inventory system under PC-MOS. We have 8 workstations on this network. Our accounting and marketing computers (4 of them) are on a separate network running Lan-tastic. My boss wants to combine the two systems, and since he's paying half my tuition bills, I've been elected to find a solution. By the way, our server is a mere 486 DX 33, but we can upgrade if necessary. Is BSD (or any unix, for that matter) a viable solution? What are the (ballpark) costs involved? I realize this is a loaded question, but I'm trying to rule out any unsensible ideas from the start. I also have plenty of time to work on the project. Can anyone help me? If so, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. (side note: we also want to employ a bar coding system in our inventory software.)