David
Wed Feb 21 05:49:32 CST 2007
On Feb 20, 8:05 pm, "Will" <westes-...@noemail.nospam> wrote:
> "David Wang" <w3.4...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1171959125.750537.59600@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> > I think the Web Edition does not allow one to install SQL, period,
> > client or server.
>
> Which makes Web Edition of very questionable worth. I'm also wondering if
> Microsoft is thinking clearly on that. The web developer who cannot use
> Web Edition to develop applications to be deployed to Web Edition probably
> ends up using Windows XP. That's less money for Microsoft.
>
> > There probably was some problem distinguishing between SQL setup
> > installing server or client, and since SQL server is not allowed on
> > Web Edition, the client probably got inadvertently banned as well.
>
> Probably, but that's a primary use application so you would think they would
> have addressed it by now in a hot fix.
>
> > Personally, for web-app development, I would use a XP Pro x64 Edition
> > because you get all the Client benefits plus IIS6 locally on x64. It's
> > just better than Web Edition.
>
> But then again you get lots of weird
> incompatibilities with win32 applications
> as well, missing drivers, etc.
Are you just repeating this or do you have concrete evidence for the
specific web-dev applications that you are interested in?
I have no problems with any of my development-related or System tools
on x64, and even if it does, I can find an x64 version.
> With Windows Server 2003 we were getting
> disk mirroring, RDP as a separate
> background activity from the console login, etc.
XP Pro x64 is based off of the Windows Server 2003 codebase so you
have the same Remote Desktop engine.
Software RAID can be had on XP Pro if you are clever...
I'm simply saying that from my perspective and experience, x64 is a
viable and future-proof dev platform. The list of x64 drivers, while
not exhaustive, is certainly more than feasible and growing,
especially if you just grab any stock Dell x64 machine that already
has it all figured out. Driver issues depend completely on hardware,
and for development purposes, fancy/legacy hardware should not be
involved.
Add on Visual Studio 2005 x64, Microsoft Debugging Toolkit x64,
Microsoft Office 2007 which runs on x64, your favorite web browser,
text editor, and Systems tools... and I find that most everything I
need works perfectly fine on x64.
Anyways, everyone has their opinion on this subject, but for certain
SQL isn't installable on Web Edition and I highly doubt it will ever
change at this point.
//David
http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
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