Sebastian Cerazy wrote:

> Now to even install the product I have to have beefy Windows server
> with IIS

Not exactly accurate. You can install it on say a Windows 7 desktop
for evaluation purposes, as long as it's Windows 7 64-bit. But yes for
a production environment, as of now at least, you need to install NFR 2
on 64-bit Windows Server.

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Why would I evaluate product that I was using since FSF days?

64-bit is not an issue here.

What is, the fact that all my storage is on NSS volumes (so I can avoid need
for Windows servers storage), yet to administer it (and NFR is
administration tool) I need to have Windows server

Madness!

Seb

"Joseph Marton" <jmarton@no-mx.forums.novell.com> wrote in message
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> Sebastian Cerazy wrote:
>
>> Now to even install the product I have to have beefy Windows server
>> with IIS
>
> Not exactly accurate. You can install it on say a Windows 7 desktop
> for evaluation purposes, as long as it's Windows 7 64-bit. But yes for
> a production environment, as of now at least, you need to install NFR 2
> on 64-bit Windows Server.
>
> --
> Your world is on the move. http://www.novell.com/mobility/
> BrainShare 2013 is coming! http://www.brainshare.com

Why would I evaluate product that I was using since FSF days?

64-bit is not an issue here.

What is, the fact that all my storage is on NSS volumes (so I can avoid need
for Windows servers storage), yet to administer it (and NFR is
administration tool) I need to have Windows server

Madness!

Seb

"Joseph Marton" <jmarton@no-mx.forums.novell.com> wrote in message
news:9PrUs.3725$vO3.2404@kovat.provo.novell.com...
> Sebastian Cerazy wrote:
>
>> Now to even install the product I have to have beefy Windows server
>> with IIS
>
> Not exactly accurate. You can install it on say a Windows 7 desktop
> for evaluation purposes, as long as it's Windows 7 64-bit. But yes for
> a production environment, as of now at least, you need to install NFR 2
> on 64-bit Windows Server.
>
> --
> Your world is on the move. http://www.novell.com/mobility/
> BrainShare 2013 is coming! http://www.brainshare.com

Sebastian Cerazy wrote:

> What is, the fact that all my storage is on NSS volumes (so I can
> avoid need for Windows servers storage), yet to administer it (and
> NFR is administration tool) I need to have Windows server

Yes, this has been a source of complaints from a few folks. The reason
this architecture change was made is for a couple of reasons. First,
the tools used to build the new NFR architecture allow it to be very
extensible. This means that reporting capabilities could be extended
beyond just NW/OES/Win and in fact we're currently investigating this.
This sort of extensibility does not exist with any sort of Linux-based
tools. Building all of these tools from scratch on Linux is something
that was looked at but that brings us to the second point. To do
something like that would have taken a great deal of time. NFR 2
wouldn't have been released this year and possibly not even for a
couple more years. In the meantime customers would have been faced
with the limitations in NFR 1's reporting capabilities while having to
wait and wait and wait for the next version.

We recognize that a Windows server is now required when in the past it
wasn't is a potential downside, but hopefully when looking at the
benefits of what's in NFR 2 today and where the new architecture will
go over the next 12-24 months those benefits will outweigh the downside
of requiring Windows server.

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