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What Evaluation Software is available to Order?

1. Server Software

Microsoft Operations Manager 2005

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 helps provide you with the knowledge to avoid the avoidable - reducing the complexity associated with managing today's IT infrastructure environment and lowering the cost of operations.

Microsoft Operations Manager WorkGroup Edition 2005

Built for smaller, targeted Windows Server System–based environments of 10 servers or fewer, Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 Workgroup Edition provides event management, proactive monitoring and alerting, and system and application knowledge to help you reduce costs and improve availability.

Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition 180-day evaluation

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition helps you build a powerful infrastructure for the most demanding uses. It's the recommended operating system for networking and business applications requiring the utmost in performance, scalability and high availability.

Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition 180-day evaluation

Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition provides robust networking for small businesses and departments. It's easy to use and includes flexible management, advanced file and printer sharing and integrated application services.

Windows Small Business Server 2003 Premium Edition

Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Premium Edition provides small businesses with the simplest way to get the power of Microsoft Windows Server 2003, plus Microsoft server-based solutions for email, fax, database and secure, shared Internet access - all integrated as one solution with a unified setup and centralised management, for an exceptional value.
Note: The Evaluation Kit includes both the standard and the premium editions of Windows Small Business Server 2003.

SharePoint Portal Server

This flexible total portal solution lets you easily find, share and publish information across your organisation.

Exchange Server 2003

The market-leading email messaging and collaboration server that is highly secure, easy to use, dependable and simple to deploy straight out of the box.

Microsoft Windows Management Platform

Take control of your systems with a combination of Microsoft technologies that allows you to build and maintain an infrastructure that changes to meet changing business needs. This 120-day evaluation kit includes the following products:

SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition 180-Day DVD Evaluation

SQL Server 2005 is a next-generation data management and analysis solution. A solution that helps organisations deliver increased value to their business by decreasing the amount of effort required to maintain reliable systems, increasing the speed of software development, and enabling the ability to fully leverage their information assets.

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition Pre-release software 360-day evaluation

This new x64 version of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition provide high performance for both 32-bit and 64-bit applications on the same system. Designed for workloads that are memory-intensive or compute-intensive, the performance and scalability of 64-bit systems are often dramatic. Large data sets can be loaded entirely into memory, reducing the need for slower disk access; complex calculations that take hours to complete on 32-bit systems can be reduced to minutes; workloads that once required large server farms can be deployed on a single server.

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 180-day Evaluation Kit

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 is developed to be the most cost-effective virtual machine solution for Windows Server 2003, improving operational efficiency in software test and development, legacy line of business application migration and server consolidation.

2. Desktop Software

Visio 2002

Visio 2002 is a diagramming tool that helps you visualise and communicate ideas, information and system descriptions.

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