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From: Andrew Hodgson
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:12

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On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:23:27 -0000, "jasee" <jasee@btinternet.com>
wrote:

>
>"Tony Firshman" <ngabuse@firshman.co.uk> wrote in message 
>news:45fc62e8$0$764$5a6aecb4@news.aaisp.net.uk...
>> Anthony R. Gold wrote:
>>> On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:36:57 +0000, Clint Sharp
>>> <clint@clintsmc.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In message <7hhmv2l0h4ap03obi9lld6ik79dkm3664k@4ax.com>, Anthony R. Gold
>>>> <not-for-mail@ahjg.co.uk> writes
>>>>
>>>>> My application does not need a web or FTP server so I'd like to run the
>>>>> machine on XP Pro rather than Server 2003 just for cost reasons.
>
>If cost is a factor (see below)
>
>>>> Make sure it has XP on its list of supported operating systems, you can
>>>> and do find 'odd' problems with lots of real servers when you run
>>>> desktop OSs on them.
>>>
>>> Thanks - a point I had never considered and indeed only these are
>>> supported:
>>>
>>> Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
>>> Microsoft Windows Server 2003
>>> Novell NetWare
>>> Linux (Red Hat, SuSE, UnitedLinux)
>>> Solaris
>>> VMware Virtualization Software
>>>
>> Then you *know* what you have to do - run XP Pro under VMware!
>
>VMworkstation 5.5  (beta 6) (for example)  is iirc �155 plus vat.
>Though there was at least one free version when last I looked: Vmware 
>server.

Though in this case HP may be refering to the comercial ESX server,
which actually is a RH distribution and the VM stuff runs on that.  Is
VMWorkstation not something that just sits on the Windows box?  I
would be interested if it isn't.

Andrew.

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