Microsoft Dev Days

[axion_sa]

Had one of those today, the launch of Visual Studio .Net 2003 & Windows Server 2003. Server 2003 looks bloody powerful. They did a thing on IIS 6 & according to the stats they gave, outclasses Apache hands down.

Oh, and we got free trials (60 & 180 days respectively) of both of 'em
Pity really, it's not like I'm going to use Server software at home, now am I?

[OrdinaryGuy]

Well yeah but apache is free and windows 2003 server is $hit expensive. Any idea how much they have priced the server edition for? maybe i can try buying a copy off ebay or crack their trial (even better)

[axion_sa]

Originally posted by OrdinaryGuy
Well yeah but apache is free and windows 2003 server is $hit expensive. Any idea how much they have priced the server edition for? maybe i can try buying a copy off ebay or crack their trial (even better)

Good point The price never came up really, but it's probably way out of us little guys' league

Oh - one of the lecturer type guys managed to crash VS - he was trying to demonstrate the obfuscator

[Cander]

Web edition of Windows 2003 is like 300$.

[kleinma]

warez edition is free i heard

not that i condone that kind of behavior.. *cough* kazza *cough*

[Cander]

*cough*eMule*cough*

[DevGrp]

*cough* IRC *cough*

[Merrion]

*cough* Benolyn **

I installed Win2003 Server on one of the machines two days ago - pretty nice, although the nicer wizards from XP never got in to it....but I now have 58 days to activate it and guess what - it doesn't work with my modem

[DevGrp]

I installed my copy and everything worked right out the box. Right now I'm considering installing it on my dev box, since its faster than Windows XP.

[plenderj]

Got a few eval kits sent out to me of the enterprise edition.
I loved the idea of "server roles" and to make a server a file server or a mail server or whatever ya know.

I thought that was brilliant.

[parksie]

Have MS fixed their security problems though?

Speed means nothing when your server gets broken into.

[axion_sa]

Originally posted by parksie
Have MS fixed their security problems though?

Speed means nothing when your server gets broken into.

Apparently they have - they did a lot of harping on about that. Apparently, one of SA's larger banks runs it, you're decision on what to make of that

You should've seen the HP server they were running it all on though - it could take something like a terrabyte of RAM. Hard disks was in the region of tantabytes (sp?) (1024 terrabytes) & up to 64 processors depending on the chassis & if you went for Itanium2. Not that the demo server actually had all that in it, just the ability to. Looked damn funky with the cold cathodes too

They also did a little thing on SQL Server 2000 64 bit Enterprise edition - **** it's quick - cubes using World Bank data, about 40% faster than 32 bit.

[parksie]

/me wants ^_^