This is mostly for me to reference later if I want to find something, but maybe you will find it interesting as well.
http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1133003,00.html
When Squyres became the IT point man at the church, he encountered a fragmented IT environment. In what he calls a “slow urban sprawl,” users had developed workarounds to the problem of not having a central file server. This incremental, many-year evolution of user-crafted processes created an environment in which many disparate islands of information existed but couldn’t be found or shared easily.
Squyres took this in and came to the obvious conclusion: “We needed a central file server because the environment was too chaotic, with individual users sharing data and files from their workstations, a lack of centralized backups of critical data, etc.”
This quote from the article decribes some of my fears that I have whenever someone says something like “Why can’t we just do [insert shitty consumer product that works for them at home]” In general I have a lot more than that, but the point he is making is that a little time, and a little infastructure, and not much money (because of linux) up front can solve a lot of problems and help ease growing pains down the road.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7653
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/45068/index.html
http://www.lulu.com/content/123098