In late June, Microsoft will ship Windows 2000 Datacenter Edition, supporting up to 32 processors and 64 GB of memory, making it Microsoft´s most powerful Windows server yet.

Datacenter Edition, which has mainframe-like reliability and manageability features, will likely steal market share from Unix and proprietary servers such as the AS/400, IT executives and analysts said, though no one anticipates that will happen overnight.

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