Citrix Systems manual MetaFrame Presentation Server Editions

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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.