Friday, December 18, 2009

Revealing Windows Server 2003 Editions

As you would be familiar with Windows Server 2003, Microsoft developed operating system to be used on the servers. There are various editions of Windows Server 2003 and one of them is Web Edition, which is primarily used for creating and hosting Web applications, Web pages and XML web services. This edition is planned for using it as an IIS 6.0 Web server and it gives a platform for quickly formulating and deploying XML Web services. Terminal Server mode is not present on Web Edition and it does not need Client Access Licenses. After installation of its Service Pack 1, you can install Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange software in this edition.

Another edition of Windows Server 2003 is the Standard Edition, which is focused for the small to medium sized businesses. This edition provides centralized desktop application deployment and secure Internet connectivity. The initial launch of WS 2003 was usable for only 32-bit processors, a 64-bit edition for holding the x86-64 architecture was launched in April 2005.

Enterprise Edition of this is focused towards medium to large businesses. This edition is available in 64-bit versions for the Itanium and x64 architectures. The 64-bit version of this Edition is adequate of dealing up to 1 TB of memory.

Datacenter Edition of Windows Server 2003 is developed for those infrastructures which require high security and reliability. Server for this edition can be used with the x86, Itanium and x86-64 processors. Windows Server Datacenter Edition is comprised of the better support for Storage Area Networks, supports 8-node clustering and many other features.

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