Agreed, big international corporations don't need to worry about redundancy, they need to worry about losing the data at point A (the desktop) before it ever ge

Agreed, big international corporations don't need to worry about redundancy, they need to worry about losing the data at point A (the desktop) before it ever gets to point B (the data centre). It would also allow a good go-between, in that a large corporation in the US could open a small branch for local development without huge overhead but still able to keep everything on your network. I've always thought MS was especially talented at keeping corporations interested in them, which is really their real market. However its a tragedy that their home computing OS' are the spin off product. I believe that's been microsofts largest problem for the longest time, it's that Mr Consumer is well beyond second-class compared with Money-Bags LTD. At least with Apple the home consumer is treated as a valued customer, you don't have to buy the Ultimate-Professional-Elite-Edition at $1,000 a pop to get everything a techie needs.