Windows Server 2008 Itanium, Datacenter and Web Editions Now Available Through CTX

17th June 2009 - Microsoft offers Windows Server through the CTX Programme in the Standard and Enterprise editions for both 2003 and 2008. Microsoft now also offers three special-purpose editions for 2008: the Datacenter, Web and Itanium editions.

In general, the Standard Edition is designed for small-to-medium-sized organisations that need no more than one instance of the server software in a virtual operating system.
The Enterprise Edition is appropriate for organisations that need a highly dynamic, scalable IT infrastructure or for organisations that would like to deploy up to four instances of Windows Server (any version) in guest virtual machines.
The Datacenter Edition is optimised for large-scale virtualisation; its license allows one server to run an unlimited number of Windows Server instances.
The Web Edition is designed to be used only in Internet-facing Web-serving environments.
The Itanium Edition is optimised for the Intel Itanium processor's native 64-bit processing and Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture.