[AccessD] Cheap windows

I know you have your reasons, but I still find it somewhat amusing that anyone should feel that picking up a crippled version of their operating system for $29.99 is a great deal when you can have a full, server and desktop grade operating system for completely free. There's even a variety of them to choose from. I suppose you could even migrate your application code to Mono C#, since it's just backend code. You could even code it in whatever you like (python for instance).

I know you are sticking with what you are familiar with and thats fair enough, it's just the principle of the matter that is amusing.

Best regards,
Hans-Christian Andersen


On 30 Jun 2012, at 11:08, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:

> I need cheap copies of windows for VMs.  I found a NewEgg special Windows Home Server 2011 X64 for $29.99 the other day and snapped up 4 copies, not knowing whether they would even work in a VM. Well... it does, with caveats.
> 
> 1) They force a minimum disk size of 160 gigs at install.  I don't need that much, 60 has always been fine for my purposes.
> 2) computer name "stuff" is locked down.  You can't change the workgroup through the interface, though apparently you can through scripting.
> 
> No idea what else I may run into before I am done, however WHS 2011 is (apparently) Windows 2008 R2 rebadged and crippled some how.  All I need is to set up my 3rd party address validation software and get my C# program talking to these VMs.  $29.99 for Windows is pretty cheap.
> 
> Plus there is a ton of discussion about getting this, that and t'other working on WHS 2011.  We shall see.
> 
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