Indeed, we would go as far as to say that it should only be considered if you are prepared to dive in with both feet. But it is when deployed within such a rich and interconnected ecosystem that the true value will be achieved.
Looked at in isolation, Server 2008 R2 brings much to the table which is worthwhile. And this allows for a rich and deeply managed infrastructure of server-hosted application servers, from web servers through Exchange Server to Sharepoint Server and into client desktop provisioning and application virtualisation and streaming. With that comes the need for strong server management tools, and Microsoft's offering here is better than it has ever been. This is the first version of Windows Server where hypervisor virtualisation is truly built into the core platform, and the default install for most implementations will be into a virtualised environment, probably using the Microsoft HyperV technology. Although there is a long list of new capabilities within Server 2008 R2 itself, the real power and value comes when you deploy multiple components of the surrounding family too. This is an OS release that's looking forward to the middle of the next decade and beyond, and is happy to shrug off the 32-bit era of its predecessors. Such a change should give a taster for the depth of the capabilities that have been engineered into the kernel. This release is 64-bit only across the board, and it can support up to 256 logical processor cores, with the HyperV VM engine supporting 64 cores within a virtual machine instance, up from 24. Some of the tweaks can be seen from the hardware changes.
With Windows Server 2008 R2, there is a clear set of business reasons to move forward to this version, and it lays the foundations for many years of productive work ahead. It's as major a release as NT 4 back in 1996, and the Server 2000/2003 editions. The release of Windows Server 2008 R2 marks a significant turning point in the history of the Microsoft server platform.
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