>>If you're looking to Linux to reduce costs by avoiding Microsoft licensing, unless you're looking at hosting a lot of desktops it may be false economy, bearing in mind potential reliability and legal issues.
>I'd seen numerous situation where a Linux server was deployed and one minor detail being ignored -- you should have someone who knows something about Linux. I'd found myself in situations where I was walking IT personnel over the phone on dealing with Linux. Not that such a thing suprises me -- considering the numerous times I'd found myself waking a IT person over the phone on some basic configuration aspects of Windows.

Good point - that's definitely part of the "false economy" for small operations.