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As he said he's in an office environment, so he's limited. However, paying for an anti-virus is not necessarily a bad thing. Just because you pay for it doesn't mean its slow or bloated. After all even AVG has an upgraded "pay" version. Anti-virus/spam software depending on the review of which there are plenty depends on who is on top. That being said, both Norton and McAfee has been known to be bloated and resource hogs.

Originally Posted by zeropointbug

Brian, YES! the first thing you want to get id of is NORTON or ANY other virus program you have to pay for, they are crap, if it slows down your PC to the point that you think you have a virus, then what is the point? you know?

That's unfortunate. It's a pretty easy upgrade path to 2008 depending of course on what hardware/software requirements there are.

Originally Posted by BrianG

And I have to use SQL 2000 because some of our servers still use it, and cannot change right now. There are reasons for this that I cannot say (if I told you, I'd have to kill you. )

Well, linux never will. Not until it gets a high-end company behind it to force companies to produce quality drivers for it (no more running the Nvidia package that compiles their driver, etc). That and it absolutely has to work seamlessly in the Windows world (re: no hoop jumping, 3rd party software, etc. to connect to Windows pcs, etc). Unfortunately you are still stuck with OpenOffice or Google Apps. Unfortunately if it did go that way, I'm of the opinion it'd probably end up in much the same heavy handed way as MS or Apple.

Originally Posted by BrianG

I tell ya, if everything worked in Linux without having to run emulators or virtual environments (and with no performance hit), I'd switch over in a heartbeat. I really am tired of Windows in general. Between Mr. Gates and his "Windows will make your life easier, cure world hunger, and get you laid more often" promises, and Mr. Job's super-inflated head and his i-everything, I sometimes just want to run into the mountains...