Windows Server 2008 - RTM!

Today Windows Server 2008 (Win2K8) has been released to manufacturing (RTM). It will be launched at a launch event on Feb. 27th and be available to the public on March 1st.

Why should you care? RPMWare runs on Windows Server 2003 (Win 2K3) and Internet Information Services 6 (IIS6). Win2K8 includes a major overhaul to IIS as well as a faster core foundation. Once Win2K8 is out and tested properly we’ll be releasing RPMWare on to new hardware running Win2K8 and IIS7. While our current servers are no slouches you’ll all be very impressed by the performance of IIS7.

Probably more exciting to most of you, Win2K8 and IIS7 is a prerequsite to RPMWare 2.0. With that out of the way we’re steadly progressing on our next major release.

I’ve got calls into our datacenter to find out the exact date we’ll have 2K8 available, but expect it’ll be pretty close to March 1.