On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:28:47 +0000, Hermit Dave wrote:

> Preston,
>
> you can use any OS from win2k pro onwards. Though you cannot use XP home
> cause it doesnt ship with IIS. You might wanna give cassini a try. Dont know
> whether its any good or not (its the built in webserver for web matrix..
> should be okay with xp home but read more about it at www.asp.net ) so
> there's the list of os you can try and use
> win2k pro
> win2k server (and advanced server)
> win xp pro
> win2k3

"Preston Crawford" <me@REMOVESPAMBLOCKprestoncrawford.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.01.23.07.41.10.743515@REMOVESPAMBLOCKprestoncrawford.com...
> I've been out of the Microsoft game for a while. I used to be an ASP
> developer and the last two years I've been doing only Java/JSP/Struts with
> Linux as my only home OS. I'm thinking of doing this site for my wife
> using ASP.NET because our host provides credit card hooks (so they say) if
> you use ASP.NET. My other question is this. What OS do you need to do
> light ASP.NET development? Is it enough to have XP Home, for example? Or
> is there no IIS server available for that? Do you have to have at least
> WinXP Pro or Win2k Pro? Remember, we're dealing with small margins here,
> so we're trying to keep our costs low. Laying out $300 for Win2k Pro might
> not make sense. Can we slide with XP Pro or do we need Win2k? Or do we
> need server? My experience from ASP days was that even Win98 had an IIS
> server you could run and do some ASP development. I'm just wondering what
> the scene is like these days.
>
> Thanks for any advice or help.
>
> Preston

"Preston Crawford" <me@REMOVESPAMBLOCKprestoncrawford.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.01.23.07.41.10.743515@REMOVESPAMBLOCKprestoncrawford.com...
> I've been out of the Microsoft game for a while. I used to be an ASP
> developer and the last two years I've been doing only Java/JSP/Struts with
> Linux as my only home OS. I'm thinking of doing this site for my wife
> using ASP.NET because our host provides credit card hooks (so they say) if
> you use ASP.NET. My other question is this. What OS do you need to do
> light ASP.NET development? Is it enough to have XP Home, for example? Or
> is there no IIS server available for that? Do you have to have at least
> WinXP Pro or Win2k Pro? Remember, we're dealing with small margins here,
> so we're trying to keep our costs low. Laying out $300 for Win2k Pro might
> not make sense. Can we slide with XP Pro or do we need Win2k? Or do we
> need server? My experience from ASP days was that even Win98 had an IIS
> server you could run and do some ASP development. I'm just wondering what
> the scene is like these days.
>
> Thanks for any advice or help.
>
> Preston