The Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server Internet Connector English North America Unlimited Clients license alone is $$1,999.00, and Real costs $50 per peak stream, on top of hardware costs.
I don't know what a cheaper alternative would be to a rack of $995 Sun or Linux boxen running QTS. You can run QuickTime Streaming Server on BSD and Linux, among other OS's. It is the most mature streaming server (kicks the sh*t out of MS or QTS) but costs around 450/stream (depending on volume pricing).ĥ. If you care about more than a few streams, brace yourself to pay $10K+ for the license. Real is only free for trivial applications. steal it) to save money, but that's not something I'd advocate.Ĥ. Sure, you could ignore the license terms of the product (i.e. Windows Media Services isn't free, it's part of Windows 2000 Server, which has substantial per-seat charges ($1,999.00 for unlimited user internet license, per machine). It doesn't run on MacOS (unless someone has ported it since I looked).ģ. The Darwin Streaming Server is a UNIX application (MacOS X, Solaris, etc.) with an NT port. We're talking about the Darwin OS, not the Darwin Streaming Server, so the whole post is completely off topic.Ģ. There are an impressive number of confusions in this troll/post.ġ.