To emphasize industry support, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO and president, paraded a passel of industry CEOs in front of the assembled press, analysts, and industry representatives. Turns out, there's a lot in this server family for developers, even if it wasn't covered in the fancy-pants event. Obviously, I don't have space here to cover the possibilities and details of each of these products.
NET platforms serious players in the enterprise Web space.
Microsoft's changed its licensing policy to work on a per-processor basis , but they're still priced for the enterprise, not for the home office. Still, you need to consider the cost of purchasing these technologies vs. the cost of developing and maintaining them on your own. For me, it remains to be seen how useful these servers are in production environments.