The Tekblog

After nearly 5 years of server-awesomeness, Small Business Server 2003 is being superseded by its predecessor, Microsoft Windows Server codename "Cougar"; better known to the public as Small Business Server 2008. Microsoft released an official launch date of November 12th 2008. This is an exciting day for those of us who have been enthusiastically supporting SBS 2003 for these last 5 years. I have been playing with Release Candidate versions of Cougar now for the last few months and I must say, I cannot wait to start deploying this in the field to my customers. It truly is the cleanest-designed and most integrated server product I have seen to-date -although surely a long time coming to us lifetime SBSers.

There is a lot of discussions across the forums and newsgroups about Software Assurance, what’s in and what’s out. At least now we have a date that can help us better decide if certain customers are better off pulling the trigger now and upgrading hardware or limping along until launch time.