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Jim · 08-31-2006, 01:47 AM

I bought a copy of Windows Server to test out a server on what it would take to get a server running w/ the next "big thing" they have coming out. I can't remember the name of the big thing right now. But it will not install without a floppy drive for the 3ware driver. It will not allow the use of the cdrom to give it the driver. I hooked up a usb floppy drive thinking, ok here we go.... no, it doesn't know what a usb floppy is. Meanwhile, while waiting on the special 1u floppy drive to be shipped, installed it on a desktop computer. Checked it out, priced everything out. To to it you need Windows Server $800, The big thing software, I THINK $6000, you need a team of lawyers to figure out the exact licensing cost. The server for it all $6000, if you want to run the big thing software, plan to get another $6000 server, and put a $6000 copy of MSSQL server on that. And hook it up to the Internet at probably $250/mo. After that they want $99 per user after the first five. When all the numbers were worked out at the going rate competing prices Microsoft was getting about 2/3rds of the money. The floppy arrived, I went to install it in its intended computer and got a message to call Microsoft, where I had to call - go through operators until finally getting a direct connection to India, and tell them where I bought it, why I was installing it again, got the 20 digit number to put in. Now I'm thinking, I won't be offering that. It would be a heck of a procedure with the server physically sitting 400 miles away. It was bad enough 10 feet away.

On the same hardware, linux installs in ten minutes, and doesn't need the 3ware driver. It already has it. But if it DID ned it, it will get it either through the USB floppy, or cdrom. And if I had to reinstall it I don't need to call and hope for permission.

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Jim of Page-Zone Status: Offline Posts: 1,130 Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Wauseon, Ohio Rep Power: 98 My location	08-31-2006, 01:47 AM I bought a copy of Windows Server to test out a server on what it would take to get a server running w/ the next "big thing" they have coming out. I can't remember the name of the big thing right now. But it will not install without a floppy drive for the 3ware driver. It will not allow the use of the cdrom to give it the driver. I hooked up a usb floppy drive thinking, ok here we go.... no, it doesn't know what a usb floppy is. Meanwhile, while waiting on the special 1u floppy drive to be shipped, installed it on a desktop computer. Checked it out, priced everything out. To to it you need Windows Server $800, The big thing software, I THINK $6000, you need a team of lawyers to figure out the exact licensing cost. The server for it all $6000, if you want to run the big thing software, plan to get another $6000 server, and put a $6000 copy of MSSQL server on that. And hook it up to the Internet at probably $250/mo. After that they want $99 per user after the first five. When all the numbers were worked out at the going rate competing prices Microsoft was getting about 2/3rds of the money. The floppy arrived, I went to install it in its intended computer and got a message to call Microsoft, where I had to call - go through operators until finally getting a direct connection to India, and tell them where I bought it, why I was installing it again, got the 20 digit number to put in. Now I'm thinking, I won't be offering that. It would be a heck of a procedure with the server physically sitting 400 miles away. It was bad enough 10 feet away. On the same hardware, linux installs in ten minutes, and doesn't need the 3ware driver. It already has it. But if it DID ned it, it will get it either through the USB floppy, or cdrom. And if I had to reinstall it I don't need to call and hope for permission. -- Thank You, Jim Snape Page-Zone --