That is exactly what I was thinking. According to this new ruling would selling a used computer with anything but a blank hard drive be a violation? Could you sell it reset to factory install? Would you have to purchase all new licensing for the PC if you purchased it used?

It isn't always as easy as just firing up another server. Depending on the complexity of the systems involved and how they tie in together, to reproduce a certain issue you might need multiple different servers, applications and databases. It is usually never as trivial as just deploying a single extra test server.

I would love to just have a nice long weekend, but unfortunately I am on call this weekend and will have to work. IT Rocks!

My company is having a hard time getting everyone migrated from windows 2000 to XP. They haven't even started thinking about Win 7 yet.