User: glomph

MS has been making appliances for years now.

On: MS unveils Universal Plug and Play @ CES

All those bulked-up 'enterprise servers' running
NT in Mongolian Clusters, just to do what a 486
running Linux or FreeBSD could do in their sleep.

I'd call the appliances "Expensive Space Heaters"

USE REALAUDIO

On: Ask Slashdot: Full Shoutcast on Linux?

I can state with some authority that a large fraction of the live radio stations on the internet are 100% linux-based. RealAudio encoding, and serving. NOT http-based (you
cannot do live streaming via http)

And there's a Linux player, as well.

All of the above available for free (for personal
use) at http://www.real.com