[Using Sakai] Recommended Windows platform for serving up Sakai?

[will at serensoft.com]

Thanks for the notes, Matt and Luke. (Hmm, where's Mark and John? :)


On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Matthew Jones <jonespm at umich.edu> wrote:
> I've been running a Windows Server 2008 (Enterprise) as a QA at
> Michigan (http://qa6-us.sakaiproject.org). I don't think it's a very
> active QA, but it wasn't very hard to setup and I don't have to do
> much work to keep it running. I'm not sure the advantages of setting
> it up in production under Windows unless you wanted to try to
> integrate it with some .NET applications directly or just had more
> local windows administrative expertise/support. With sakai you're
> basically just running tomcat and either proxying it from a webserver
> (IIS/Apache) or running tomcat solo directly. so the OS shouldn't
> matter that much anyway, just so long as it has a sun jvm.
> (solaris/osx/linux/windows)
>
> Also, sakai doesn't officially support mssql, so you'd have to still
> run oracle or mysql somewhere.
>
> Many people do run it as a trial/demo under Windows though. As a
> production I'd probably use a server (2003 or 2008) machine.
>
> -Matthew
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:44 PM, will at serensoft.com <will at serensoft.com> wrote:
>> So far all our Sakai installs are on Linux, but it compiles under
>> Windows as well, so...
>>
>> Which version of window server is Sakai 2.5.x / 2.6.x "certified"
>> (recommended) to run on?  2003, 2008,
>> standard and/or Enterprise?
>>
>> If you have success stories and/or horror stories for any particular
>> Windows platform, we're all ears. :)
>>
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>> will trillich
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