Anyone have any practical experience with Windows Server 2008 Core edition? Just curious to see what people think about it who have used it. I'm downloading the demo of R2 now.

A slimmer, and potentially easier to remotely manage server seems like a nice idea. Just not sure how well Microsoft executed on these goals. Especially when the first time I saw the "GUI less" interface, it was a GUI with a CMD.exe window open. Hopefully R2 improves a bit from this.