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MetaFrame Presentation Server Editions
To accommodate a wide spectrum of customer requirements for functionality and
scale, MetaFrame Presentation Server is offered as three editions:
•MetaFrame Presentation Server, Standard Edition. Delivers the level of
control that departments, workgroups, and small organizations need to extend
the reach of Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 to any device.
With the Standard Edition, small organizations can centralize IT management
and provide workers with secure access to applications anytime, anywhere, and
over any connection.
•MetaFrame Presentation Server, Advanced Edition. Builds on the features
of the Standard Edition to provide additional scalability, manageability and
application availability for growing organizations. The Advanced Edition is the
ideal access infrastructure solution for small- to medium-sized organizations
who need to effectively manage and deploy applications and scale as
organizational needs require.
•MetaFrame Presentation Server, Enterprise Edition. Provides the ultimate
access infrastructure solution for large organizations and multi-national
corporations. The Enterprise Edition offers extensive scalability, rapid
application deployment, and comprehensive monitoring capabilities needed in
large server farms to manage access to Windows-based applications.
To provide a look at the broadest product functionality, MetaFrame Presentation
Server, Enterprise Edition, has been selected for evaluation. This Reviewer's Guide
provides a high-level overview of the MetaFrame Presentation Server solution, and
describes the benefits of MetaFrame Presentation Server, Enterprise Edition.