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"If you're a Windows admin every day is a bad day at the office. Get yourselves a proper OS."
Working just fine here - you must need some competent Windows admins . Just finished migrating all our HeartBleed effected internet facing LAMP crap to IIS. Faster, needs less hardware and much easier to maintain with far fewer security vulnerabilities to worry about, and you don't risk getting RSI doing basic management tasks! :-)
It seems everyone else is doing the same too: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/06/06/june-2014-web-server-survey.html
"14 July next year might be a bad day at the office. "
Hardly, the big one was the XP date, server 2003 less so as it doesn't usually have users sitting in front of it which tends to be the biggest risk. The only 2003 boxes I'd be concerned about would be the ones that are publicly facing. The rest are likely at very low risk.As it happens we won't have any left... but still...
I have a customer I have recently quoted to do a near direct like for like replacement for their SBS 2003, eg, OS 12r2, Exchange 2013, SQL 2014 (not express). Before the hardware and CALs were factored in I was over £5k with SQL being the biggest cost.
Granted this is all lazy ball park figures based on a wander around google, but I don't think that it will come down much more than a grand.
I have recommended sitting on SBS and SA their Office up to 2010 from 2003 and see how the costs are next year.
>I have a customer I have recently quoted to do a near direct like for like replacement for their SBS 2003, eg, OS 12r2, Exchange 2013, SQL 2014 (not express).
Personally, I would do one of the following:
1. Upgrade them to the last version of SBS ie. SBS 2011 - licenses are still available via the channel as this nicely simplifies the licencing issues.
2. Upgrade them to Office 365 et al.
3. Investigate one of the Linux based distributions that are intended as replacements for SBS.
My preference is to go with option 1 and investigate 3 for the next replacement in circa 2018.
I suspect Trevor Potts will have something to say on this.
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