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Sep 21, 2004
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Windows Server
Reference Guide
Your Host Scott Fulton
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Have you seen the "minimum requirements" for a computer running Windows Server 2003 lately? Wondering what changes there have been? Not many... okay, not any. Basically, any PC in the world can run WS2K3. But wait a minute. This version of Windows is for a server, right? These days, do companies really use PCs as servers? We look into some of the real minimums that enterprises truly require from their server equipment, and we start to investigate whether that vision equates with or meshes well with Microsoft's.
If you were a reader of byte.com between 1999 and 2002, you probably ran across the work of Daniel P. Dern. Fact is, if you ever experienced the effects of a rift in the space/time continuum, and you ended up for any length of time suspended in space aboard the Babylon 5 space station, then there you probably also ran across Daniel P. Dern. (Perhaps Daniel could locate the synaptic residue of the people who wrote the script treatment for the Babylon 5 pilot.) Daniel is the quintessential technology journalist, as though he had interacted sub-atomically with all the greats—David Ahl, John J. Anderson, David Bunnell, David Small, Wayne Green, Ken Uston, Forrest Mims III—and through the magic of quantum interaction, absorbed their defining properties in the process, for his journey throughout the galaxy. If ever there is a great computer technology conference again, Daniel will be there, probably moderating some symposium on developing WSDL interfaces
for the charm quark.
Anyway, Daniel has discovered the fax machine. Really, he has. He discovered it in the server room, and in this clever little article, he introduces us to fax servers. Now, why would you want such a thing when there's e-mail? Not every industry has successfully divorced itself from the fax machine. As I've discovered (in my own little journey through a tucked-away corner of the space/time continuum that I wouldn't suggest anyone visit soon), servicemen, insurance agents, and attorneys are three categories of tradespeople whose dependence on the fax has only grown over the last few years. If there is any hope of expediting the way in which information centers make contact with people in these trades where paper is either a legal or a practical necessity, they will need to marry the fax machine and the server. Daniel explains, as only Daniel can do.
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