James,

You ever read Cryptonomicon?

http://www.amazon.com/Cryptonomicon..._1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312516924&sr=8-1

About deployment - besides the obvious enterprise tools [and enterprise prices], there are now several MS and Open Source tools for automating deployment, patch management, upgrades.

For obvious reasons, we will be revisiting those options in the next six months.

Indy
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