Linux servers, Windows XP desktops: a happy marriage?

Years ago, Stankich and his team thought what was good for the servers could, maybe, be good for the desktops, too. One problem, Stankich describes the business folks as "big MS Office users." So the IT team tried to transition everyone to Sun's OpenOffice, with disastrous results. Employees revolted. MS Office came back and end users have been running XP ever since.

As I mentioned, the company also booted out Cisco for VoIP and opted for open source Asterisk for its PBX. "We replaced a Cisco Call Manager blade server with Asterisk around 2007. We are able to use our old Cisco phones with it, too," he describes.