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Windows 2003 is not just a single product, it's a family of servers and a whole gaggle of relatives. The Windows 2003 family has the following four core members :
Windows Server 2003, Web Edition: This is a new type of server for Microsoft. This server is optimized for hosting Web sites and is the only Windows Server 2003 that installs IIS 6.0 as a default component.
Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition: This server is the same level of server as Windows 2000 - just a normal network server capable of establishing and managing a domain. According to Microsoft, "this flexible server is the ideal choice for the everyday needs of businesses of all sizes." And if that doesn't say it all, nothing will.
Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition: This server is a bit more robust. It demands more computing horsepower, but can return it in spades. Enterprise Edition is designed to support infrastructure servers that require high reliability and superior performance.
Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition: This is the granddaddy of all servers from Microsoft. It's designed to offer mission-critical fault-tolerance for demanding applications by providing a scalable clustering architecture that offers high availability. In other words, this is one super-powerful beast that you wouldn't want to meet in a smack-down fight.
You might be thinking, "Wow, what a group of systems! You can't possibly get any better than that!" Well, that's what Microsoft was aiming for. To expand and proliferate the new 2003 platform, Microsoft has repositioned many of their top products as 2003 Enterprise Servers, including the following:
Windows 2000 Server family (yeah, they repositioned their old product in the new hype)
Application Center 2000
BizTalk Server 2000
Commerce Server 2000
Content Management Server 2000
Exchange Server 2000
Host Integration Server 2000
Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000
Mobile Information 2001 Server
SharePoint Portal Server 2000
SQL Server 2000
If you want to get a head full of info about Windows 2003, check out http://www.microsoft.com/net. Everything you'd ever want to know about the new 2003 platform is there just waiting for you.
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