• alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Windows Server is rather common in large enterprise software. All the stuff you pray you never have to interface with

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      1 year ago

      It sure is convenient. You get a user friendly GUI. But the stability, the resource intensity and the spyware. It’s really a removed decision to build your servers on Windows Server.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, but some software, and it’s usually a financial application, requires a Windows Server.

        I’ve seen it more than once, as I had to set up the machine, I was dying inside, but there was just no alternative that the accounting could use.