Digital Home Thoughts: Platinum Sponsor Highlight: Microsoft US Windows Server Business Marketing Organization Donates Windows Server 2003

Vendor: Microsoft US Windows Server Business Marketing Organization
Prizes: Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition x 2
Total Value: $7998 USD 8O ($3999 USD each)

"Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition, differs from Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition, primarily in its support for high-performance servers and its ability to cluster servers for greater load handling. These capabilities provide reliability that helps ensure systems remain available even if problems arise. At a high level, Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition, provides support for:

• Eight-way symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) To increase server performance and capacity, you can add processors, an approach to increasing your network capacity is known as scaling up. The enhanced support for SMP allows you to add processors that work together—that is, multiprocessor servers. Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition, supports up to eight processors in a single system or partition.

• Eight-node clustering Server clusters up to eight nodes are available only in Windows 2003, Enterprise Edition, and Windows 2003, Datacenter Edition.

• Up to 32 gigabytes (GB) of RAM By adding memory, a computer can work with more information at once. Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition, includes enhanced memory capabilities that let you increase the memory available for server processing to as much as 32 GB of RAM. For memory support beyond 32 GB, see Overview of Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems."

What do you need to do in order to win? Well, this giveaway is a little different than the other ones: Windows Server 2003 is a fantastic platform for streaming Windows Media from, and because of that (and the fact that these are such expensive prizes) I'd like to give it to someone who would really put it to good use. So here's what you need to do: post a message in this thread explaining how you'd use Windows Server 2003 Enterprise to enhance what you currently do, or to do something new. If it involves Windows Media, all the better, but that's not a requirement. How can Windows Server 2003 enhance your business? What would you use it for? The best two responses, chosen by myself, will win the software. Get to it!

This is the last giveaway partner for the Digital Media Thoughts grand opening contest, so this Monday the 21st we'll start giving away all the prizes, one group per day, until we're all out of prizes. Remember to pass the word along so people get registered in our forums!