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Microsoft Recalls Small Business Server

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the another-day-another-delay dept.

dasButcher writes to tell us VarBusiness is reporting that hot on the heels of many other delays, Microsoft has recalled their Small Business Server 2003 R2. The operating system started shipping to OEMs, distributors, and systems builders in July but was immediately recalled after a recent audit.

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  1. Huh - did it explode in a fireball? by Maxmin · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, it's only software, how dangerous could it have been?

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    1. Re:Huh - did it explode in a fireball? by hmallett · · Score: 5, Funny

      Boeing won't use SBS in their plane avionics - it only allows up to 75 seats, and they'll need up to 330 for the forthcoming 787.

  2. New patent application in the works? by miffo.swe · · Score: 5, Funny

    New way of shipping on time?

    1. Ship your non-ready product on the stipulated date.
    2. Tell your customers your product has not met your enormously high quality standards *giggles violently*.
    3. Use the time gained to make the product ready for shipping.
    4. If its not ready in time see # 1.

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  3. SBS made me quit my job... by BinaryCodedDecimal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Slightly off-topic, but SBS is the reason I changed my job. I leave this place at the end of the month, thank god. I support several companies, 10 of which are using SBS. It has to be the best way of putting all of a company's eggs in one basket. It goes against everything that makes good sense about creating an available, stable network with some redundancy. If you go for the Premium edition and install everything, you'll find yourself running: - Exchange - SQL Server - ISA Server - IIS - File/Print services - DNS - DHCP - WINS All on the same box which is ALSO a domain controller for your network. If that box fails (some of our clients are cheap enough to have declined a RAID solution, against better advice), then that's it... the whole place is down the toilet until the box is rebuilt, and you'd better pray that the backups are good. It's a horrible, horrible way of running things, IMHO. I'll be glad to not have to support these boxes any more.

  4. I feel your pain by SpooForBrains · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've recently been butting heads with SBS. Put in a samba server and a terminal server for a client to expand their business and bring some sanity to their IT setup. Their existing database app is hosted on a machine running Windows 2000 SBS, and I'm not allowed to move it. The server can't join their new domain - it's not even allowed to be part of a domain trust. The whole situation is hideous. I want to meet the person who recommended it and smack them round the face with the installation media.

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  5. Therac 25 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    To hell with your case fans. Software can kill, ask anyone who lost a loved one to Therac-25.

  6. Re:At least they caught it by Moby+Cock · · Score: 5, Funny
    I think Microsoft occupies the sweetest niche in all of business.


    Yeah, monopolies are pretty cozy. Those Exxon/BP/Shell/Total guys have not released a new product in 50 years but still haul in record profits.