[AccessD] New SQL Server license scheme is RADICALLLY more expensive

Hi Arthur --

> At the moment, I'm running Windows 7 as the native
> boot, and then running Oracle VirtualBox inside that, and inside that, I
> run various VMs, including Ubtuntu, Mint and Windows 8 Preview CTP 3.
> Everything works just ducky.
> ...for now this arrangement suits me to a tee.

May I know what is your hardware to run all that stuff?

Thank you.

-- Shamil


13 ноября 2011, 02:05 от Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>:
> JC:
> 
> SInce you have lots of boxes available, my suggestion would be this:
> 
> a) sacrifice one box to the god of Linux, and choose either Ubuntu 64 or
> 32-bit, depending upon the hardware.
> b) install the appropriate virgin of Ubuntu; reformat the main drive to
> suit this;
> c) wait a while, while it installs all the default software;
> d) when it's all done, download a VM engine such as Oracle/Sun VirtualBox
> (there are others, but that one happens to me my choice).
> e) install any other OSs that you think you may need (which assumes that
> you have the boot discs for same).
> 
> At this point, you should arrive at a native Ubuntu boot and have access to
> x number of VMs, with the ability to create more.
> 
> At the moment, I haven't yet flipped my main squeeze, but I plan to do so
> in the immediate future. At the moment, I'm running Windows 7 as the native
> boot, and then running Oracle VirtualBox inside that, and inside that, I
> run various VMs, including Ubtuntu, Mint and Windows 8 Preview CTP 3.
> Everything works just ducky. I and everyone else in the world could profit
> (even if only the non-monetary version of this word) by acquiring more RAM,
> but for now this arrangement suits me to a tee.
> 
> My ultimate plan is to flip this whole setup, so that Ubuntu is the native
> boot, and all instances of Windows and Office and Access and .NET are VMs,
> isolated from the serious stuff, so that no harm can befall the base OS.
> 
> One of my goals in this endeavour is to learn Mono, and see how much code
> can be transported to this frame. As it happens, an old friend has offered
> me a simple database to transport from his dozen Excel workbooks into a
> single Access db, which I could in theory transport to Base or some other
> Linux db.
> 
> I think that I'll postpone this flip until the Christmas holiday week, when
> I am guaranteed not to hear from any client with pressing issues. That
> gives me lots of time to back up everything (I just bought another 50-pack
> of DVDs).
> 
> A.
>