Posted Monday 26th May 2008 08:23 GMT

I can get a little box and put linux on it and have a 'home'* server for less than the price of the windows home server licence.

And just what is a home server anyway - is it a disabled proper server with an expensive upgrade path?

Opinion

David McLeman

My 25 years of comical IT buzzwords

Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps

Will they have to drag him back like last time?

Are you getting what you want?

Playing the SLA long game

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