Web applications built on the Windows 2000 operating system.
Companies face many choices when they build Web sites.
With the latter approach, companies are sometimes left with a management challenge, because systems administrators typically have to tend to each server in a cluster separately unless they have created or bought special tools. Application Center was designed to address that problem, enabling a company to manage a cluster of up to 12 servers as a single entity, said Microsoft technical product manager Bob Pulliam. Firms with more servers can use a staging server to deploy applications to each of the clusters, he said. I can't share the road map, but it's pretty impressive. Microsoft is investing in this product.