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Windows Server 2008 editions

By Ilija | May 16, 2008 | Subscribe to RSS Feed

If you want to purchase Windows Server 2008, you can choose between 5 editions. In next table I’ll give you a list of new and updated features in Windows Server 2008.

New/Updated Features	Enterprise	Datacenter	Standard	Web	Itanium
Internet Information Services 7.0	+	+	+	+	+
Hyper-V	+	+	+	-	-
Network Access Protection	+	+	+	-	-
AD Rights Management Services (RMS)	+	+	+	-	-
Terminal Services Gateway and RemoteApp	+	+	+	-	-
Server Manager	+	+	+	+	+
Windows Deployment Services	+	+	+	-	-
Server Core	+	+	+	+	-

If you want to know Windows Server 2008 prices, here they are:

Windows Server 2008 Standard, $999 (with five Client Access Licenses, or CALs)
Standard without Hyper-V, $971 (with five CALs);
Enterprise, $3,999 (with 25 CALs)
Enterprise without Hyper-V, $3,971 (with 25 CALs)
Datacenter, $2,999 (per processor)
Datacenter without Hyper-V, $2,971 (per processor)
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems, $2,999 (per processor)
Windows Web Server 2008, $469

In next post, I am going to give you a list of all Windows Server 2008 roles available in each version of Windows Server 2008.

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