[dba-Tech] Cross posted: Is 2003 ready for prime time?

I am looking again at the MS action pack subscription.

http://members.microsoft.com/partner/salesmarketing/partnermarket/actionpack
/actionpackus.aspx

My reading of the license indicates you are purchasing the right to use all
the products for a period of 1 year, which for $299 is pretty cheap I think.
Of course when the year is up you must purchase another subscription, which
assumes that it is available etc.

Still... it provides a year's exposure to all this stuff for peanuts.

It is all 2003 however.  Does anyone have experience with this stuff?  Is it
ready for prime time?  I have a server machine pretty much sitting idle - I
wanted to set up IIS and publish web sites from my office but am terrified
of being hacked and the learning curve for security looks like a time suck
on my daily business.  So there it sits.

Has anyone purchased this package?  Comments?  Observations?  Warnings?
Recommendations?

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com