Update To Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
InfoWeek | at | by Mike
Microsoft will ship an update to Windows 2000 Datacenter Server next year. The planned product, Windows Datacenter Server Limited Edition, will deliver better scalability and performance for E-commerce, data visualization, and data-mining applications, according to Microsoft.
Unlike that Microsoft product, Windows Datacenter Server Limited Edition will be based on the company's new "Whistler" operating-system code. The 32-bit system will target servers containing 16 or more Intel CPUs. Microsoft says it has increased the product's performance and scalability for online transaction processing, online analytical processing, and data-mining apps, by improving its "lock contention" capabilities, which manage how users access a database, and its ability to manage computing resources for large workloads.