[Year 12 SofDev] OT: servers for VPN

[Tom at Edumail]

Andrew

 

As a country school, all things being equal, I'd go with your local people.
Helps keep business in town, helps promote the school with your local
businesses, and I find they'll go that bit extra  for you.

 

regards

  Tom Carswell   carswell.tom.n at edumail.vic.gov.au

     IT Manager

     Portland Secondary College

     Must St 

     Portland 3305

  

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On Behalf Of Andrew Grimshaw
Sent: Thursday, 29 November 2007 10:27 AM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List; Year 12 Software
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Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] OT: servers for VPN

 

HI every1

 

pls excuse cross posts

 

next year we are implementing a multicampus VPN and are looking to buy some
servers to run it

 

there are 2 competing schools of thought (pun intended):

 

group A want to purchase from a local supplier they have been with for a
long time who make custom machines. excellent service history, only the best
quality parts

 

group B  have been dealing with one of the large suppliers and wish to
continue with them - again they have been using this company for years and
are very happy with both product and service

 

price-wise and spec-wise the servers are almost indentical

 

personally, i would be happy to go with either - as a teacher i just want a
system that works and i want it up and running for the start of 2008!

 

anyway, to assist in reaching a consensus between the 2 groups, i was hoping
to get some feedback from others who've already set up a similar network -
to find out what hardware they've used - reliability and service are the
principal criteria

 

thx

andrew grimshaw

colac college

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