Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition offers significant reliability, scalability, and manageability improvements compared to Windows 2000 Advanced Server and is capable of supporting mission-critical workloads in enterprise data centers. Windows Server 2003 includes all the functionality customers expect from a mission-critical Windows server operating system, such as scalability, reliability, and availability. The Windows Server 2003 family provides scalability through scale-up, enabled by symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and scale-out, enabled by clustering. Internal tests indicate that, compared to Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003 delivers up to 140 percent better performance in the file system and significantly better performance in various other features including Microsoft Active Directory service, Web server and Terminal Server components as well as networking services. Windows Server 2003 scales from single processor solutions all the way up to 128-way systems. ...