Well so far the requirements dont appear to be enforced with a heavy hand (at least with the trial software), I threw VMWare Fusion trial on my macbook, allocated 1gb RAM to the VM, with a single CPU core allocated at 2.4 ghz, 20gb partition size, and it installed fine. 300mb of RAM still to spare even with the sqlserver and exchange daemons running (but nothing even set up yet, and only about 12gb of the 20gb consumed. Good enough to learn on, Still a few bugs to work out.
On Nov 18, 2008, at 6:10 PM, Eric E Eskam 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 > > > > > > If this email is spam, report it here: > http://www.OnlyMyEmail.com/ReportSpam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
