OS rollovers - good or bad idea?

[GARK]

I had posted a short definition of LAMP on the old forum, and concluded that WAMP was faster to setup.
When you mentioned "rolling over" to a new operating system, I thought to ask whether or not that was a good idea, since Apache and PHP servers are not quick to adapt to new technologies like VISTA or HOME SERVER. Usually Apache, MySQL, PHP Server technologies are tweaked to run better on older operating system versions like Windows 98/2000/XP. I have HOME SERVER , but hesitate to install just yet. It would be good if you documented your installation process for HOME SERVER as I have yet to tread in those waters. Maybe setup a FAQs page about the ups and downs of setting up WAMP on HOME SERVER. Just a thought.

[vinyard]

since Apache and PHP servers are not quick to adapt to new technologies like VISTA or HOME SERVER. Usually Apache, MySQL, PHP Server technologies are tweaked to run better on older operating system versions like Windows 98/2000/XP.

Well I can tell you MySQL and PHP have been running great with no problems and were easy to set up. I can't tell you much about Apache, as I am not using it, but can guess it will probably work as it should under windows home server as it was built on the same code base as windows 2003 server r2.(Vista I'm not too sure.)

By the way I am thinking on moving to apache sometime in the future but right now abyss is giving me what I need.