Thanks Tracy...

So far I've got a Development (the better one) box with XP Professional, Foxpro and soon .NET. A Workstation running Windows 2000 Professional that will have many of my "other" stuff like graphics design programs, distributed testing area, and miscellaneous. And the third, Server, will have Windows Server 2000 and SQL Server 2000. Don't have 2003 yet. The Development and Workstation boxes will both have Office 2000 Professional and stuff like that. The are all networked together and I'm using the Server box for shared data storage for the other two. Am I missing anything?

>I would set one up as a Windows 2003 server, one as a Novell server, and one with SQL Server. You can connect to each from each other so you wouldn't absolutely have to have a separate workstation. That is just my preference. If you don't care about learning to manage Novell then use that one as the development workstation. You can run with .net and VFP loaded on the same workstation for development so my best system would be the development system and not necessarily the server (especially since in your test enviroment there would be little processing done on it).
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>>I've just obtained 3 PCs. One Dell Optiplex that is server quality, and 2 Dell Dimensions that are solid workstations. I've networked them together with a simple LincSys hub. Now, what to do with them? I have all my data on 1 workstation, loaded some programs on the other and have done nothing yet with the server. I think I'm interested in learning more about network administration, SQL Server and database administration... But, I'm also interested in learning about .NET and other development languages. Anyone have any suggestions as to how to best use this setup? What would be the best place to load what and how can I get the most out of this?