Windows Essential Server Solutions - SBS and EBS

This week we opened up the Public Preview for Windows Essential Server Solutions - Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008. 

Visit here to find out how to download and evaluate the Release Candidate 0 versions of both.  EBS is available now, SBS will be up within a few weeks - but you can sign up today and be notified when it is ready.

We also unveiled pricing for SBS 2008 and EBS 2008.  We've made a lot of changes to SBS as a product, so the price has changed.  In most 1-75 user cases, SBS 2008 Standard is actually less expensive than SBS 2003 Standard.  SBS 2008 Premium is now a two box solution with an additional copy of Windows Server and SQL Server running on a second box, in order to provide a great application platform - a big request from partners and customers.  There are a number of changes to make SBS CALs more flexible and cost-effective, too - see here for details.

• SBS 2008 product overview
• EBS P008 product overview

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 16, 2008
  Thanks for posting about this Georgina, that's my downloads for the afternoon taken care of!