Comments on: Microsoft recalls small-business product

Company finds glitch in Small Business Server product after its release to computer makers.

[DryHeatDave]

This is why

This is why M$ is not ruling the Enterprise software world. They can't get it right for small business, and they certainly can't for Enterprises.

I design integration solutions for financial services sector clients, who handle trillions of dollars per day. This sort of failure is unacceptable in big business (BTW Biztalk performance sucks).

[Tanjore]

They actually got it right!!!

Microsoft actually got it right. They just did not relax that they shipped the product for manufacturing...and wait to send the updates using auto update. To their credit they found the issue and are fixing it!!!

I agree that their solutions may not scale in enterprise. But, microsoft is a company that atleast attempts to learn from their mistake!!!

Show me one company that shipped product on time. Building software I am sure you know is not like building a house, it is like a completing a billion piece puzzle!!!

[jlpeifer]

Am I at risk?

I recently implemented a new SBS-2003 OEM server for one of my clients. How do I determine whether this recall affects me? Or should I just trust that Mr. Gates is going to contact me directly with the news (hehe)?

[webdev511]

Not unless you installed R2

Which had very limited availablity. Most of the really good things in R2 are just service packs and SBS friendly interfaces for already available tools like WSUS.

I don't know why MS felt compelled to force SBS 2003 R2 out the door as fast as they did. IMHO they should have waited a bit longer, added ISA 2006 as one of the premium technologies and SQL 2005 Express as a replacement for all the MSDEs SBS uses.

All in all, it was better to recall R2 before there were any production installations of it.