So last week's announcement was somewhat of a surprise. I had thought that Foundation Server would be an R2 SKU, that is, a version that would ship with Windows Server 2008 R2 in late 2009. "Here we are releasing another version of Server." "Yeah, it's kind of boring," Microsoft's Iain McDonald joked with me during a recent briefing. (As with retail versions of Small Business Server, Foundation Server will only be sold with hardware however, unlike SBS, you cannot purchase Foundation Server through volume licenses and other channels.) Foundation Server, as I'll call it, has already been made available to mainstream server makers like Dell, HP, and the like, and will become available with new low-cost hardware in the weeks ahead. Microsoft last week officially announced a product that Windows IT Pro UPDATE readers have known about since the end of 2008: A new low-cost version of Windows Server called Windows Server 2008 Foundation.
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