Windows 2008 Server

Research assignment Part 1
Why windows Server 2008 comes in different version?       Aswer.com
Windows comes in several different varieties to accommodate features useful to different types of users. Large businesses are willing to pay dearly for operating systems that support dozens of processors and thousands users, but small business would be loathe to pay the same price when all they want is to run a small volume web server. By creating multiple versions with different features sets, Microsoft is able to maximize their profits by gaining both types of customers.
What is the significance of each version?                               Techotopia.com
Windows server 2008 standard edition is primarily targeted for small and mid-sized businesses and is ideal for providing domain, web, DNS, remote access, print, file, and application services. Support for clustering, however, is notably absent from this edition.
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition provides greater functionality and scalability then standard edition. Enhancements include support for as many as 8 processors and up to 64GB of ram on 32-bit systems and 2TB of ram on 64-bit systems. Additional features of the enterprise edition include support for clusters up to 8 nodes and active directory federated services.
The Datacenter edition represents the top end of the windows server 2008 product range and is targeted at mission critical enterprise requiring stability and high uptime levels. Windows Server 2008 datacenter edition is tied closely to the underlying hardware through the implementation of custom hardware abstraction layers. As such, it is currently only possible to obtain datacenter edition as part a hardware purchase.
Windows web Server 2008 is essentially a version of windows server 2008 designed primarily for the purpose of providing web services. It includes inter information services 7.0 along with associated services such as simple mail transfer protocol and telnet.  
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