I used Apache/PHP/MySQL under Win2K Pro for 18 months in our shop.  Normally
I use Linux to server the development versions of the sites, but for this
period it just happened to work out that Win2K was convenient.  I ran it on
a PII 266 if I remember right, but we only had a very few people
connecting - 4 at most.  It ran flawlessly, though...I was very surprised.

Nowadays, I use SuSe Linux (currently 8.0 although they are up to 8.3 I
believe) with Apache/PHP/Perl/MySQL for development versions and I am very
happy with that.  If, however, you prefer an MS OS you could do worse than
Win2K. I would definitely recommend Apache, though!

D


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rajnish Bhaskar" <r.bhaskar(at)compserv.gla.ac.uk>



Hi folks,
This may be off-topic for this list, in which case I apologise.

One of my collegues is wanting to set up a server for running various
web applications both internally and externally.  Unfortunately, we
have found the licensing for Win2003 Server very confusing.  It seems
that we need an "external connector license" for each user who
connects to the server from outwith our university, but we aren't
sure what this means.

Are they referring to users who use the server as a file or
authentication server (ie none) or just any user who connects to the
web server that will be running on that machine (probably Apache),
which we have no way of determining.

Do we even need Win2003 server?  Would a workstation OS like Win2K
Pro suffice, given that we're going to be using it only as as a web
(and possibly database) server?

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