Henry
Sat May 07 03:32:50 CDT 2005
Next cab off the rank is SBS 2003 SP1 due in the next few weeks.
( for SBS Premium customers this will include ISA Server 2004 )
Then there will be a SBS 2003 SR1 shortly after Windows Server 2003 SR1
Planned for 1st half/mid of 2005.
Next is Windows Small Business Server 2003 "Cougar"
Planned for 2nd half/end 2005
Then Windows Small Business Server Longhorn
Sometime after ( the shorthorn version of ) Longhorn eventually
releases.
Personally I'd not be too concerned about waiting for future releases.
What we have now ( with SP1 and ISA 2004 ) is pretty fantastic for our
space, particularly if you couple it with other offerings such as CRM
( see the Special on the SBS CRM Bundle from microsoft ), Custom
Sharepoint Apps, or Quality Accounting / LOB Applications.
The big news going forward in my mind ( for our space) is not 64 Bit
O/Ss and Apps, but the Hardware. Dual Core Hyperthreaded Processors -
Microsoft have agreed to change the licensing to -per socket- instead of
Per Processor so that would mean we can run 8 CPU systems. Couple that
with new SAS and or SATA Mini Drives and your box becomes a monster that
will easily handle all those Servers and Applications on it. ( and
probably a few in VSs as well )
--
Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}
CI Information Technology
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Melbourne SBS Users Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/melb-SBSusers/
"Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> When will the new SBS come out and what will it be called?
>
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> Dave