Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 16th Jul 2008 19:26 UTC, submitted by snydeq
Windows InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy has been using a converted Windows Server 2008 as his primary OS since hitting a wall using Vista as a Visual Studio development platform four weeks ago. According to Kennedy, the guerrilla 'Workstation' 2008 OS has turned his Dell notebook into a well-oiled machine that never gets sluggish and rarely needs to reboot. Those interested in making the switch should check out win2008workstation.com, a clearinghouse for 'Workstation' 2008 tips and techniques. Kennedy also offers a link to a Windows 2008 Workstation Converter utility for quick conversion.
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Segmentation
by jwwf on Wed 16th Jul 2008 20:11 UTC
jwwf
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2006-01-19

It all boils down in selling the same code in a bunch of similar but different, different yet similar packages.

Market segmentation annoys me and really wastes the time of those in the trenches. That's one of the great freedoms of Solaris or Ubuntu -- one edition fits all.

How many times has the average admin found that he doesn't have the right edition to enable some paltry feature he needs? (For instance, in SQL Server: data driven reporting subscriptions, database snapshots, etc etc). Probably about as many times as a hardware-locked activation key has trashed an otherwise sound DR plan...

Thanks Bill ;)