Well that roadmap is suddenly sounding a lot better :) As for temporary/bridge solution, instead of temporarily putting Apache+PHP on Win32, can you deploy LAMP and temporarily connect to MS-SQL over local-network instead of on localhost?
Yes and no. Yes - it is possible (and quite easy), as you know. No - the company wants everything one hosted box for now until they grow. It's the sort of thing that if I had my way and I had control over the network and hardware, then I'd make one Linux box and one doze box. But given that isn't the case, I'm pretty much limited to that way of doing things.
