Ok so this is just a comment about Hot Standby vs. FOE. While I understand the FOE engine provides application and module redundancy, it is a vastly more expensive solution thatn Hot standby. I say this because the FOE is a one for one server fail over process and Hot Standby is a one to many fail over process. I for one like the hot standby arrangement and would like to see Solarwinds keep that product alive. The odds of all 4 of my servers going down is far less than the odds of them all going down at the same time. In fact if all of them went down at the same time, I've got bigger problems than trying to bring back a network managment product. I find that I have a far bigger issue with hardware failures on individual servers and my budget can't support buying 4 additional servers to provide redundancy on a one for one basis.
Any of you that have the same issue, speak up