A hidden gem in Microsoft’s solution set is the Microsoft Web Platform. It’s quite amazing. With a click of your mouse button, it can install a complete Wordoress setup (or Drupal, or DotNetNuke, or Sharepoint Foundation, or SugarCrm) – along with whatever additional system software is necessary to make that product run, such as IIS, SQL, MySQL, PHP, ASP, etc.
In the past two weeks alone, I installed a complete SugarCRM solution and a Sharepoint Foundation 2010 solution on HP Microservers for customer evaluation and testing.