IAG runs ISA?

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What is not obvious is the fact that the IAG appliance has the full edition of 2006 ISA standard edition running on it.  I figured that I should do this as a follow up to my ISA vs IAG post - as I failed to mention it there.  So why should I even buy ISA 2006 instead of IAG you might ask?

  • If you want any of the enhanced features for the enterprise version of ISA (NLB, Web farm publishing, shared configuration between multiple machines, etc)
  • As far as what I'm told, the cost for IAG is more than for a copy of ISA standard edition.
  • If you want to put the software on your own hardware instead of an appliance.  IAG only can be purchased as an appliance currently.

I hope this helps.  If there are other reasons, please feel free to comment.

Also, if this is the first post you're reading, please check out my post ISA 2006 versus IAG - Which one to use? which has more information and links to other sources.