| • | Running Mission-Critical Applications on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition
No matter what business you are in, certain applications and systems are vital to the daily operation and long-term success of your enterprise. E-mail, databases, and other business applications require the most reliable, scalable, and secure operating system platform to achieve maximum performance and reliability. To support these important workloads, Microsoft has developed Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition as the premier operating system for your mission-critical applications. This paper examines key aspects of Enterprise Edition and proves how they are essential to running applications critical to the success of your business. |
| • | Selecting a Platform for your ERP System
In past years, many organizations have chosen to build their business systems on Mainframe, Midrange, and the UNIX/RISC platforms. Now, as the life cycles of many of these legacy platforms come to an end, these organizations are choosing to migrate their critical business systems to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition with Microsoft SQL Server 2005. This whitepaper evaluates, how, through re-platforming to the Microsoft Windows Server infrastructure, organizations currently running Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications on other platforms can achieve improved performance, greater reliability, and reduced costs—while maintaining the enterprise capabilities they have today. Because of its reliability, performance, low total cost of ownership, manageability, and security, Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition with SQL Server 2005 provides a superior platform for the ERP systems of today and tomorrow. |
| • | UNIX Interoperability in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2
Windows Server 2003 R2 provides a scalable, security-enhanced Web platform, seamless interoperability with UNIX-based systems, and enables new scenarios, including simplified branch server management, improved identity and access management, and more efficient storage management. Windows Server 2003 R2, Enterprise Edition also delivers dynamic new licensing that allows customers to get even more value out of server virtualization. Organizations can benefit from reduced costs and increased efficiencies gained through enhanced management and control over resources across the enterprise. This document includes: Benefits of UNIX Interoperability, Interoperability in Action, Network and Application Compatibility in Windows Server, Network File Services, Identity Management for UNIX (IDMU), Windows Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA), Utilities and SDK for UNIX-based applications |
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