Before i can get my hands dirty, building components of a rich internet application. I first need to get my backbone installed. Since the essence of rich internet applications, in my opinion, is the real time communication with and visualisation of data out of a database in a rich user friendly interface, we need at least a……..Database! right!.

The server on which the whole development thing will run is a windows 2000 server edition on a pentium ice age with i believe something like 233 Mhz and 64 MB RAM memory. Just to give you an idea of how low the specs are ;).
On this server i installed IIS (standard on windows 2000 server edition) and MSSQL as a database backend.

With the knowledge i have at this moment of things like rich internet applications, flash remoting, etc i have a hunch i will need coldfusion as a script interpreter on IIS. So i downloaded and installed the 6.1 version of that also.

That should do it for now. Let’s get busy and do some tutorials. When anything comes out of it, i’ll yet you know.