I wish there were more "black box" appliances for the windows environment. DC's for instance. It has a great appeal for distributed branch office type scenarios.
| "Robert Moir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/29/2003 09:32 AM
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] IIS 6 |
Hey Rick, you thinking we might see a lot of small "appliances" similar to the cobalt cube built on this or what? I'm curious as to what sort of take up people see for this kind of product.
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From: Rick Kingslan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 29 January 2003 14:26
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] IIS 6
Amit -
You are correct. But, there are two issues with this line of thought from the standpoint of what the poster was looking to get - which, sadly, he won't.
1. Web Server Edition (at least as I write now - they changed the name 5 times - they might change this too, but I doubt it) will not be generally available as a separate SKU item. IOW, you will have to purchase it with a system. The wisdom of this, IMHO, is questionable - though fact.
2. It is cheaper - because it doesn't do much else other than web services. But - it still is IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003. It's not going to allow you to drop it on any OS that you want.
