Comparing Windows 2000 Server to Windows 2000 Advanced Server

[Asif]

Why is it that advanced server seems to be cheaper on ebay and other places?
Don't you have the same thing in advances as regular server plus?
i know you get clustering, network load balancing and a few other things in advanced but it just seems like people are willing to give up advanced much easier/cheaper


curious.....

 

[Nothinman]

Would you really trust a copy of Windows AS from eBay to be authentic?

AS is only legal and supported on certain hardware, i.e. you can't buy it without a huge server and support contract.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Would you really trust a copy of Windows AS from eBay to be authentic?

AS is only legal and supported on certain hardware, i.e. you can't buy it without a huge server and support contract.

You might be thinking of Datacenter Server. AS is commonly sold. For example, at Office Depot:
http://shopping.msn.com/eshopframe.aspx...3fproductid%3d87528%26affid%3d10000009

 

[Nothinman]

Er, yea I was thinking of Datacenter Server.

Either way, I doubt I would trust a cheap version of AS from eBay to be legal.

 

[wallsfd949]

From my understanding, Advanced Server has support for >4 processors on one machine. That is the only difference if my info is correct.

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Would you really trust a copy of Windows AS from eBay to be authentic?

This would be my main concern.

 

[imported_SeanRinVA]

Originally posted by: wallsfd949
From my understanding, Advanced Server has support for >4 processors on one machine. That is the only difference if my info is correct.

It also supports Windows Load Balancing Service - I've used it before hardware load balancers were available to load balance traffic to 4 webservers.