Analyze new products for small businesses: Windows Server 2008 Foundation(2)

Windows Server 2008 Foundation helps small businesses run business applications, databases, and hosting websites at a great price, and provides basic server functions such as file, print sharing, and remote access. Basic application. As the business grows, users can upgrade to other Windows Server family products, breaking through 15 user limits and gaining new features such as integrated email, simplified management, virtualization and more.

Removed Hyper-V and Server Core two small and medium-sized enterprises rarely involved in the function, Windows Server 2008 Foundation performance is similar to the standard version, basically meet the needs of small business applications, its low price and good Scalability is very worthy of attention for SME users.

Market Impact

Windows Server 2008 Foundation is a new server platform that fills the gap in Microsoft's low-end server market, effectively meeting the needs of users in the global small business market, and its low cost. The price and operation of the simple Windows environment will have an impact on the current free Linux market.

For a long time, the competition between Microsoft Windows Server and Unix systems in the high-end market has not affected the habit of SMEs using free Linux as a server system. Linux has firmly grasped the low price advantage. The market, and the Windows Server 2008 Foundation has completely broken this pattern.

For Linux systems, small businesses can use the free version, but Linux system maintenance is slightly more complicated and requires special management. In the conservative case, the labor cost is about 40,000 per year, while the Windows Server 2008 Foundation is The familiar Windows environment operation simplifies management and combines the technical support services provided by OEMs. The labor cost is negligible. And the genuine Windows platform has more software support, which is effectively guaranteed in the stability and compatibility of system services. Compared with the Linux system that places performance, security and stability on the system administrator, the advantages are obvious.

Ms. Chen Lining, Sales Director of the OEM Division of Microsoft (China) Co., Ltd., told reporters that the Windows Server 2008 Foundation version will have a very favorable price, but the specific pricing depends on the server manufacturer and is expected to be 4 On the 27th of the Windows Server 2008 Foundation's large-scale conference, announced by OEMs such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM.