> I just did a little reading about Windows 2003 Web Server > Edition and it's curious that MS says you can't use SQL > Server or even the SQL Server Express Edition with it. The > describe the Web Server Edition as being built for developing > web applications...how do they expect a web application to be > built with a database? I figure I can use MySQL on it, which > I would anyway, but they seem to be shooting themselves in > the foot with that limitation...
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