1. Changed the IP address on eth0 to one suited to the new network
2. Set the IP address of eth1 to 0.0.0.0 (this disables the interface)
3. Disabled the DHCP server on eth0
4. Added a manual default route to the new network's ADSL router
5. Modified the SMTP Smarthost settings so that outbound SMTP traffic used the new ISP's SMTP MTA
6. Modified the firewall on the ADSL router to forward ports 25, 80, 81, 443, 1352, 1723, 4443 and 60080 to Astrium

As the Lotus Live data centres(sic) are in the US, under whose jurisdiction is the data stored?

• and thus limit the impact on your financial position and reputation and, in the long term survive as a successful business.

• provide continuity in customer service,
• at a minimum acceptable level,
• with the minimum acceptable delay,
• and thus limit the impact on your financial position and reputation and, in the long term survive as a successful business.

• Small companies are often located on a single site.
• They often have limited spare capacity in terms of staff, logistics and infrastructure.
• They also often have a smaller number of higher value customers.

• my Powerbook and a 3G modem,
• iGo travel power supply (with tips for the Mac, iPhone etc),
• Power Monkey with tips for my iPhone, blue tooth headset, etc.
• Headset.
• Skype for telephony - I use skype for all my telephony now.
• I have my LogMeIn account that lets me get on to my Thinkpad, left behind at home.

• The portable mouse for my Powerbook: I borrowed one from my father.
• The webcam for the Powerbook (it's a G4): I can survive that.
• Sufficient personal clothing: there are plenty of shops and I have a credit card.

"It is likely that human populations will only respond to climate disruption when it really impacts most lives."

"It'll never happen to us so I won't worry about it". (subtitle: I won't spend money trying to deal with something that may never happen")

Good comparison between the two products, but I don't quite agree with your roadmap.

I am personally a great fan of WHS as a backup solution for home and SOHO environments so I entirely concur with your first stage, but not with the second as it introduces the potential for a discontinuity when looking at the third stage.

Unless I am missing a lot from the licensing position with Windows Server Foundation, I don't see why I wouldn't go straight to Lotus Foundations (possibly without the "Start" element, i.e. Domino, in order to compare directly with WSF).

In the aforesaid business, so far no IT expertise has been required (WHS requires none). Virtually none is required by Lotus Foundations, but I expect some to be required for Windows Server Foundation (unless MS has done a job on the admin interface).

In my experience, Lotus Foundations "just runs". Apart from managing the users (very simple) and the occasional click to accept a new release of the O/S I would have had to do nothing with mine. (actually, as a Domino consultant I've been hacking it left right and centre, but that's my problem :-)

The IDB technology is sweet! As you say, it does an incremental backup on to a dedicated disk every 15 mins (though this can be configured). All one has to do is occasionally change the hot-swappable hard drive that collects the backups. It does not (as yet) include the "Vault" technology that was in the Nitix range of offerings and allows one to automatically off-site the backups, but it is coming soon.

Gareth