Monday, November 26, 2007
What is the difference between SharePoint Services and SharePoint Server?
This question came in an email from Shanghai this morning: “What is the difference between sharepoint server and sharepoint services?” Chris responded with the following:
The main difference between the two are the capabilities and features. There are actually several different versions of SharePoint with varying levels of functionality. These versions are Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 , Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard, Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise. Here is a short list of added features as you move up to the next level:
- WSS 3.0
- Team-Sites and Workspaces
- Basic Functionality
- Workflows
- MOSS 2007 Standard
- User Profiles (My Sites)
- Portal Sites
- Enhanced Search including People
- Single-Sign On
- MOSS 2007 Enterprise
- Excel Services
- Business Intelligence Dashboards
- Internet Publishing and Content Management
- Web Based Infopath Forms (Users don’t have to have InfoPath to complete business forms)
I would also recommend the slide posted on Mike Pallot’s blog here http://blogs.technet.com/mikep/archive/2007/10/16/which-version-of-sharepoint-should-you-buy.aspx –
Gives a good summary of licensing options.
Derek
Anything with Services in the name is free, anything with Server in the name cost money.
MOSS uses the services provided by WSS to provide the functionality that the users see.
Programmers can call the services provided by WSS in other applications to avoid writing code that would otherwise be necessary
A good comparison is at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sharepoint/techref/versions.mspx
Derek – Thanks for the link.
Dean – Good point. Can I use that in my 100 Tricks and Traps book! “Spend money on a server. Get serviced for free.” Kind of has a ring to it.
Mark
Mark, go right ahead, it’s not my idea, i heard the ideas about cost on the DotNetRocks podcast
Follow this link
http://www.milesconsultingcorp.com/SharePoint-Portal-2007-Version-Comparison-between-MOSS2007-and-WSS3.aspx