Some of the admins have been discussing a Rainbow 2.0 Lite edt.  This edt will come with a stable 2.0 core and deploy on the SQL Express 2005 engine.  This way host can quickly deploy rainbow portals when the app_data folder is used.  The app_Data folder can be used to house the rainbow.mdf and as long as a user has access to either a SQL Server 2005 engine or any varient of SQL Server, they can attached their pre-made site or a fresh install of the site.  This is a pretty powerful concept as it also allows current rainbow users to extract their current Rainbow dbs as .mdf files and deploy them within the new framework with a couple modifications.  Rahul has expressed his ideas for the lite module pack.

Rahul suggests :

HTML Document - For normal Html copy | Paste and for reg HTML edition | CMS


Pictures - Good module for users as everyone loves pictures these days
   

Events - Display a users events


Announcements  - Let the common user have annoucements

XML Feeds - Let the user stream content to their site with copy and paste

If you have any other recommendations for Rainbow Lite, Please let me know.  Below is a screenshot of Rainbow 2.0 running on SQL Server 2005 express.  This shows that you dont have to have a paid SQL Server 2005 edition to run rainbow.