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64-bit required for memory
The 64-bit only limitation makes since because virtualization is memory constrained more than CPU. PAE works but there is a performance hit. I believe the trend in large enterprise environments is a minimal or embedded base OS (JeOS + hypervisor) on large multicore servers with tons of memory, running appliance like applications. Or, big apps like clustered databases. Where this may miss, or is overkill is in the SMB market where classic file and print servers still dominate. 2008 R2 is an enterprise release and will shoehorn for SMB or branch office servers. I have no doubt it is an improvement, but I'd liken it to IBM seeing mainframe revenue strong and missing the PC server revolution. I see a trend toward atom powered mini-server appliances serving up mini-clouds to nettops and netbooks in an SMB like setting.
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64-bit required for memory  jcschweitzer | 04/30/09
WHAT!?!?  mikefarinha | 04/30/09
Actually  jperlow ZDNet Moderator | 04/30/09
Sorry  mikefarinha | 04/30/09
LOL  precedenttech | 05/04/09
Didn't they make out it was a build from scratch at one point?  fr0thy2 | 05/01/09
Comment to "What"  precedenttech | 05/04/09
I have to admit  LiquidLearner | 04/30/09
Just to be clear  jperlow ZDNet Moderator | 04/30/09
Actually  bobiroc | 05/04/09
When I mean Win32  jperlow ZDNet Moderator | 05/05/09
Terrible developers still survive...  fr0thy2 | 05/01/09
Perhaps you've been fortunate  LiquidLearner | 05/01/09
Actually it tends to be the other way around...  914four | 05/14/09
Please don't feed the troll (nt)  honeymonster | 05/03/09
You're excited about a Server OS?  randomnoise | 05/03/09
Jealous are we? Typical freetard mentality...nt  transposeIT | 05/06/09
Q: about SAN  Roger Ramjet | 04/30/09
NTFS cluster locking  jperlow ZDNet Moderator | 05/01/09
64-bit is no big deal. Naming it R2 is misleading.  jmiller1978 | 05/01/09
Server 2008 had more in common with Windows 7  LiquidLearner | 05/01/09
Why do so many spend so much time worrying about the name?  ye | 05/04/09
Because...  bobiroc | 05/04/09
Those "people" aren`t tech ingineers, they are worthless kids that...  Soulstorm | 05/04/09
Wasn't it Jason Perlow who started the Win 7 = Vista SP2 stupidity?  transposeIT | 05/06/09
This is the evidence that Windows 7 is Vista R2  qmlscycrajg | 05/04/09
And your point is?....  Soulstorm | 05/04/09
Well, if that is true, then you will have to concede....  xuniL_z | 05/04/09
RE: Make no bones about it: Server 2008 R2 is really Windows Server 7  ken.donoghue@... | 05/04/09
confused...?  MrSinatra | 05/04/09
Missing the point...  Narg | 05/04/09
RE: Make no bones about it: Server 2008 R2 is really Windows Server 7  wtfnix | 05/04/09
And the only stable os to windows xp  rebelxhardcore | 05/04/09
There's a reason the industry still uses server '03  Spiritusindomit@... | 05/12/09
Maybe as a Whole  bobiroc | 05/13/09

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