>>Will Microsoft Office & Foxpro etc. not work on Linux server ??? Pls clarify....
>No way. There was Foxpro 2.x for Unix version, but MS doesn't support it anymore.

FoxPro doesn't run on my Novell server either, but so far that has never bothered me. :-)

>You may get away with running a web site or even your mail, but that's it. I hear somebody saying database server runs faster(??), but that means a rewrite if you're using dbf's. Not to mention good unix db engines are not free.

Ummm. Well, actually I got a free version of DB2 for Linux from IBM (reputedly a good Unix db engine though I haven't taken the plunge yet.)

Peter Robinson