[plug] [OT] In need of the superior brain power of the LINUX community to brainstorm some ideas

[Bret Busby]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Colin Trueman wrote:

> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:25:11 +0800
> From: Colin Trueman <col_1 at bigpond.com>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> To: Plug <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> Subject: [plug] [OT] In need of the superior brain power of the LINUX
>     community to brainstorm some ideas
> 
> Whilst this is a bit OT there is a LINUX server involved...
> 
> I have a friend who (to cut a long story short) is scratching his head
> looking for a viable business use for 3 servers (2 x win2000, 1 x RH7.3) and
> 30 win98 boxen, all are networked and the lan has a large b/w net access.
> General specs of all boxen are about 1Ghz processor the servers have a bit
> more grunt and a bunch of RAM.  We have brainstormed some ideas but are
> looking for some fresh more learned options/ideas.  Any and all ideas
> welcome (except the standard 'scrap all the doze' kinda stuff... lol)
> 
> 
> Cheers all
> Col
> 
> 

Apart from selling the equipment (why get the equipment, THEN look for 
a use for it?), there are the possibilities of using it for training, 
setting up an Internet cafe,  software development, a paid 
support/helpdesk set up, a research ("You email/phone us with your query 
and we'll research it") facility, using search engine searching (there 
is already at least one business apparently doing fairly well from 
that).

The possibilities are limited only by the imagination.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of 
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
  written by Douglas Adams, 
  published by Pan Books, 1992 
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