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We are onboarding a new application in our environment. The application itself is 32 bit. There is no failover clustering feature.<br />
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Am I correct in thinking that the only difference between the Windows 2008 Server Standard and Enterprise is the support for greater memory in the Enterprise version? And, because the app is 32 bit, it can't use more than 4GB so we don't need an Enterprise version?<br />
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I've tried to find on the internet, but is there a straightforward chart that lists the differences between Windows 2008 Server Standard, Enterprise, DataCenter and R2?
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Hi

We are onboarding a new application in our environment. The application itself is 32 bit. There is no failover clustering feature.

Am I correct in thinking that the only difference between the Windows 2008 Server Standard and Enterprise is the support for greater memory in the Enterprise version? And, because the app is 32 bit, it can't use more than 4GB so we don't need an Enterprise version?

I've tried to find on the internet, but is there a straightforward chart that lists the differences between Windows 2008 Server Standard, Enterprise, DataCenter and R2?

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