[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS. Size indeed matters not.] Life After Microsoft - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"
Sat, Jun 6 2009 12:01 bradley

Life After Microsoft

As I've said before, one of the topics under (strong) consideration for SMBnation in Vegas this year is an honest evaluation of non Microsoft solutoins from a Var/Vap/Customer standpoint.

So for grins I signed up to download Lotus Foundations and see what it's like. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/foundations/start/

I realize that it's a headless appliance (like Home Server) but I feel like I've gone back in time. :-)  Dos screen!

More blogging later, but it will install on Vmware if you call it RedHat workstation.

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# re: Life After Microsoft

Saturday, June 06, 2009 10:09 PM by Chris Knight

No different to ESX/ESXi in that regard.

And less memory for a GUI that's rarely used can go towards cache memory for file/web/whatever serving that is frequently used.

Anyway, future appliances from Microsoft will be more like this as the roadmap for MinWin progresses.

# re: Life After Microsoft

Tuesday, June 09, 2009 9:27 AM by Bilal Jaffery

On the server side, the core of the OS is actually on the chip. Hence, the minimalistic approach.  It has numerous benefits as you are probably aware, from having instant ON functionality to being able to run even during worst hard drive crashes.

Thanks for trying it out! We look forward to your reviews.

# re: Life After Microsoft

Tuesday, June 09, 2009 9:55 AM by Gareth Howell

Considering that the console interface gets used for maybe 2 minutes, maximum during an install, and after that everything is done through a web interface; I don't think this is much of a criticism.

# re: Life After Microsoft

Friday, June 12, 2009 6:25 PM by Tyler Wisenburg

You know, to be completely honest I haven't seen a single benifit to non Microsoft products.  I just recently installed RedHat for the umpteenth time.  Every time they have a new release I like to play around with it and see if it makes a difference.  It ran far slower than even Vista did on the same box.

I know there are other solutions and I've played with several of them.  To be totally honest though, no one comes close as far as usability.  And you certainly don't save any money.  If you are going to be running a business you need business class products.  That means RedHat or other comparable product with a support structure behind it.  You're not going to get that any cheaper.

I look forward to the discussion, but I certainly don't see changing anytime soon.