I was at a TS2 today and they were talking about virtualizing this beast to make recovery easier and faster. They have also put in a lot of new changes so you might want to look at the entire thing again.
Jon On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Eric E Eskam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Phillip Partipilo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/13/2008 12:18:43 AM: > > > I mean for real, you dont see Linux vomiting over certain > > requirements, it'll be perfectly happy to install on incredibly, > > totally substandard hardware, where it will be doing nothing but swap > > the entire time. To be so draconian is really disturbing. > > > On the flip side, look at the market MS is targeting - non-technical users. > > Now I know it's a little absurd to expect a non-technical person to install > SBS, but that is part of their target audience. If MS didn't cut off the > requirements somewhere, they could go through the whole "vista capable" > fiasco all over again, so they drew a line in the sand and said "here are > the requirements". Either way they can't win. Now if they had a way for > you to push F6 or something on install and basically acknowledge you knew > what you were doing and to turn the sanity checks off, then that would make > some folks happy... until some consultant did that in a production > environment at a clients demand and then they were subject to complaints > about SBS "sucking".... > > I dunno. Tough call - I don't blame them, though. The 64-bit requirements > and the lack of an in place upgrade option aren't putting me in a hurry to > upgrade any time soon. That and I'm keeping an eye on: > > http://www.bilal.ca/ > > Their appliance has some pretty compelling features - esp for hardware > recovery, is cost competitive to SBS (esp. after the 2008 price hike) and > with Symphony I could probably eliminate Office for further cost savings. > > Either way I'm not in a hurry to touch my SBS 2003 installs. > > Eric Eskam > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any > position of the U.S. Government > "The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange > protein; it rejects it." > - P. B. Medawar > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
