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

I bought it and received it a couple weeks ago it but haven't installed 
anything yet. It seemed like such a good deal though that I couldn't pass it 
up. I was most interested in Visio and Frontpage - the rest was just a bonus 
for me. But I want to build a system to load it on and just haven't had 
time..... there's a couple more things to add to my 2004 to do list 1) build 
new machine 2) load Action Pack stuff on it.

Gary Kjos
garykjos at hotmail.com





>From: "John W. Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
>Reply-To: Discussion of Hardware and Software 
>issues<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
>To: "DBA - Tech" <Dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com>,   "AccessD" 
><AccessD at databaseadvisors.com>
>Subject: [dba-Tech] Cross posted: Is 2003 ready for prime time?
>Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:02:00 -0500
>
>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
>
>
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