Thank you for all of your replies, all of which are very helpful.
Rest assured I won't be rushing into any implementation as it's me that would take the flak if it went wrong!
The situation is that the head is attending an IT strategy meeting (without any IT people present of course!) tomorow where he has to give a brief presentation on where we see 'IT' going in the near term. There are several subjects, VLE being only one. I just needed some presentational concept material in a hurry. Thank you very much for your help.
We probably will go down the moodle route in due course, probably from September but it will depend on input and support from the staff, one or two of whom are a IT illiterate!
It will happen and I'm sure I'l be a regular on here from now on.
Thanks again.