[Gllug] Wanted - small (20, 30, 40gb) ide disks for kids' computers

[Martyn Drake]

On 19 Nov 2009, at 11:53, damion.yates at gmail.com wrote:

> We then acquired the Windows team for an existing Windows media
> streaming solution, and they managed to do a couple of other bbc sites
> (jobs.bbc.co.uk is ASP, and /dna forums were a spinoff from hitchhikers
> h2g2).  We considered their manual installations as completely retarded,
> but they stuck with it.  It is actually possible to build Windows
> servers remotely too.  You can even do it in bulk using MS technology.
> Or open source solutions closer modelled on the Unix ways, I think using
> dosemu for part of it!  Of course anyone that technically minded to go
> down that route, probably wouldn't have chosen MS as a solution in the
> 1st place, which is why you rarely see this deployed.

Without going into too much detail, we at Memset[1] deploy Windows servers (physical and virtual) remotely - all without using Microsoft tech ;)  It works very well too.

[1] http://www.memset.com
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