As VMware steps into the virtualization limelight in San Francisco at its VMworld conference Sept. 11, Microsoft is trying to steal some of that thunder by making a number of announcements of its own. Microsoft is announcing that it plans to deliver the first release candidate of Windows Server 2008 later this month. The first Community Technology Preview of Windows Server Virtualization, code-named Viridian, will be released at the same time, Larry Orecklin, Microsoft's general manager of marketing for System Center, said at a media event Sept. 10.
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Member since:2006-07-25
although there is no PDC in the traditional sense, there is always the primary/first server. This server is a little bit different to other servers on the AD.
As for windows 2008, windows 2003 was an excellent release. Very fast rock solid, ive only tried out the win2008 CTP for a little bit, but first impressions are good. It's still pretty amazing that the company behind Windows Vista is also the company behind Windows 2008, as so far i don't really think much of vista still.
I suppose it comes down to that Microsoft is a good company with lots of very bright people that only seemed to be used when Microsoft wants to fend off opposition. I believe that the windows after Vista R2 will be incredibly good due to the mounting competition from Mac OSX and Linux.
However back on track, Core services look good for data centres, lowering the attack surface. I'll be interested to see what sort of performance we will get from SQL Server 2008 and Win2008. As i think Win2003 and SQL 2005 are one of the best databases around, very quick/reliable with some great tools.
Although it would be nice to have a 2008 release for the three products at the same time (The last one i can remember was 2005 (VS, SQL Server and Biz Talk). I hope Microsoft doesn't sacrifice Win2008 quaility for marketing.
Member since:
2006-10-31
There's no such thing as a PDC in an AD environment.
That doesn't mean it'll be trivial for the samba team to add win2008 compatibility, but hopefully the main change will be extending the LDAP schema.