On 13 Feb 2009 at 12:41, Sam Cayze wrote: > I have some small, light-weight non-mission critical server applications > that normally I always installed on server-grade hardware,thus requiring > Server 2003. With the advent of virtualization - you are no longer bound to > the requirement of using Server 2003, etc for hardware compatibility. > > What are the caveats of using XP Pro instead? (Assuming the server > application actually runs on XP - I have seen many that do).
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