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Windows Server 2008: You write the story

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Windows Server 2008 has some pretty cool new features, but are they enough?

With this version, Windows Server finally offers real virtualization. The new release also includes sustantial performance and security improvements, there's the stripped down Server Core, role-optimized installations, better Active Directory tools and more.

So....Will you consider moving up your migration schedule for the Windows Server fleet? Will you move Linux servers onto Windows Server 2008? Where does Windows Server 2008 fit in your plans?

Computerworld is conducting a survey and I will be speaking to IT folks over the next few weeks. If you have thoughts on the subject and would like to be part of the project, please post them here.

I look forward to your comments.

 

What People Are Saying

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The Hyper-V Factor

Microsoft is finally offering true hardware-level virtualization in Windows Server 2008 with the upcoming release of its Hyper-V software.

But I have to wonder if users will resent the fact that the proprietary design is totally incompatible with VMware and its VirtualCenter tools that many large businesses have come to depend upon? See my latest blog and My column this week on the subject.

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Overtake Apache Server this year?

One thing I'm interested in seeing is whether Windows Server will finally overtake the open-source Apache Server as the most popular Web server this year.

Last year, it looked like Windows Server 2008 would finally boost it over the top. But Apache has come back strongly in recent months.

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Apache killer?

Tom Yager, in his recent review for InfoWorld, seemed to imply that Server 2008 could indeed be an Apache killer.

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I'll start - Integration of Desktop Standard

One reader says he is relieved that Desktop Standard, swallowed whole by Microsoft in 2006, has finally reappeared in Windows Server 2008. The product automates the creation of group policy objects for the enterprise.

That tool is now part of Server 2008, and has been rechristened as Group Policy Preferences.

Says this IT exec: "This product [Desktop Standard] is phenomenal. It covers all of these gaps that [Windows Server's Active Directory] has had for years. If it wasn’t for this product we wouldn’t have been able to migrate out of Novell when we did. It was integral to our transition."