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martz · Rated R

hmmm..... i had a quick scoot around the web admin console.

i think if you want something that'll run straight out of the box, yet have serious capacity and flexibility, then SME Server is the way to go.

Dont get me wrong, Clarke Connect looks good .... very good in fact, but there's stuff thats missing, and it looks like theres a fair bit of fiddling to be done in the web admin control panel to get it running just the way you want it. A lot of services are off by default, and i could see this confusing the hell out of the un-initiated. Also the fact that the default admin login is root made my teeth itch.

I noticed the apache server seemed quite slow when directly compared to SME Server. Both OS's were run under VMWare Server on a 2.6GHz P4 with a gig of ram, and were configured with identical VM hardware.

I could probably produce a pros / cons list as long as your arm with a couple of weeks of playing, but this is just my initial impression.