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Skriven 2006-03-20 20:35:00 av ROBERT FOWLER (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ALAN ZISMAN
Ärende: Re: need time?
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-=> ALAN ZISMAN wrote to ROBERT FOWLER <=-

 RF>   XP is not a full fledged server, simply because Microsoft has another
 RF>   product, 2003 Server, which fulfills that role.

 RF>   Consequently the design of XP has carefully limited its capability. ;-)
 
 AZ> More perhaps, an example of marketing than anything else.

 AZ> WinNT Workstation and 2000 Professional, for instance, are hard-wired
 AZ> to limit the number of concurrent connections to a maximum of 10,
 AZ> making them less usable as webservers or peer-to-peer file servers.

 AZ> A registry hack floated around online that with a few relatively minor
 AZ> registry changes effectively changed these versions into their
 AZ> respective server equivalents, or back again.

 AZ> Given the added money that MS charges for its server versions-- and for
 AZ> the required client licenses for each workstation that connects to a
 AZ> Windows server, they wouldn't want the various workstation versions to
 AZ> seem too capable.

 To be sure.  Of course the other variable in the equation that can't
 be forgotten, is the hardware.  If one intends to use one of these
 platforms in a true sever-client network, the hardware needs to be
 server class or equivalent.  Expecting the workstation to be transformed
 by a registry hack, might lead otherwise to disappointment. ;-)

 Regards,

 Robert Fowler

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