Windows .NET Datacenter Server Changes
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The essence of Windows Datacenter Server is shaping up to be the Windows Datacenter Program and pure scalability. Through the beta and release candidate cycles of Windows .NET Server 2003, Microsoft has been boiling the Datacenter edition down to its core components. That process has involved furious shuffling of features between the Datacenter Edition, which follows Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, and the Enterprise Edition, which succeeds Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
Compared with Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, Windows .NET Server 2003, Datacenter Edition, will be moderately more scalable in 32-bit configurations. It will support the same 32-processor SMP maximum. On memory, its 32-bit support will double to 64 GB of RAM. Its 64-bit support will be set at 128 GB of RAM, a massive amount by today's standards and at current memory prices but nowhere near the theoretical maximum of a 64-bit system.