On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Joe Yoder <joe@wheypower.com> wrote:

> I have a client who does business with a food supply company with an

> extensive web site (gfs.com). Food orders are placed on the vendor website

> using Chrome running on Windows Server 2003 via remote desktop session.

>

> My client has been getting warning messages that, since they are running

> XP, their access will be cut off soon as Microsoft has dropped support for

> XP. I contacted the vendors sales rep and explained that Microsoft is

> continuing support for Server 2003 until 2015 and that by that time my

> client will have migrated to Server 2008. She was satisfied that this will

> be satisfactory.---------------

>

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You have to ask the question, is the business with this vendor more

valuable that a new server ? Just a guess but did you have a value on

Server operation per year and if you do is that amount that high?

I would skip server 2008 altogether and consider 2012. Sure it is a lot

more secure that what you are running today and it looks a lot different at

times as well.

We just upgraded to 2012 servers both hard iron for data as well as 50 in

virtual virtual. We have all ERP Apache apps running in their own virtual

server, and each app will have a Test as well as a Prod server. All are

in Server 2012.

--

Stephen Russell

Sr. Analyst

Ring Container Technology

Oakland TN

901.246-0159 cell

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