Overview of the Windows 2000 Product Family

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Staying competitive in the new digital economy requires an advanced computer-based, clientserver infrastructure that lowers costs and enables your organization to adapt quickly to change. The Microsoft Windows 2000 platform — the combination of Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 2000 Server — can deliver the following benefits to organizations of all sizes:

  • Lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

  • A reliable platform for computing 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week.

  • A digital infrastructure that can accommodate rapid change.

The entire product family is designed to provide networking, application, communications, and Web services with increased manageability, reliability, availability, interoperability, scalability, and security. To accommodate the computing needs of organizations of all sizes, there are several Windows 2000 products available. The following sections introduce you to specific products that make up the Windows 2000 family.