There’s an old saying: those who refuse to study history, are doomed to repeat it - and, in the IT version, this says that people who base IT decisions on popularity are doomed to forever accept recycled ideas as new and advanced.

With that in mind I want to dig out something from last January discussing a plan by one Mark Whitehorn to blog his company’s transition to the wonders of the 1980s coded into Microsoft’s Server 2008 stack.