Visvanath Ratnaweera

It is already on ./
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/10/12/2053257.shtml?tid=187&tid=146
Moodle is often mentioned in the discussion that follows.

> So things continue to change!
Since when?

In case you haven't seen it already
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=6920

and if the network bandwidth an issue
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=25786

If your Government and Microsoft together telling you what to take, ask them how to do it!

Did you check the obvious? With some mysql client (command-line mysql or phpMySQL) connecting to the database with exactly those parameter you've given to Moodle?

> move on to using IIS instead of Apache before going into coding issues.

Could you please elaborate on how moving from Apache to IIS help the coding issues?