LOOKING TO MOVE up the high-end server food chain, Microsoft will release to manufacturing its heavy-duty version of Windows 2000 on Friday, a company official said.

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Aimed at data warehousing companies and ASPs (application service providers), Windows 2000 Datacenter will be formally launched at the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant's Sept. 26 Enterprise 2000 launch in San Francisco.

Microsoft has said that Datacenter will support as many as 32 processors in a symmetric multiprocessing configuration and 64GB of memory, and it will include availability and reliability features such as two- and four-node clustering, process control, and network load balancing.

Windows 2000 Datacenter Server will be available only through qualified OEMs who participate in the Windows Datacenter Program, which certifies hardware for Datacenter use, said Michel Gambier, group product manager of the company's enterprise server group.

Compaq, in Houston, met the certification standards last month, and on Friday Microsoft will unveil other manufacturers who have qualified, including Hewlett-Packard, in Palo Alto, Calif., and Unisys, in Blue Bell, Pa., Gambier said.

Microsoft received feedback from companies that participated in a Joint Development Program (JDP) for Datacenter Server, including Credit Suisse First Boston and the United Kingdom-based Abbey National.

"We have about 20 JDP customers testing the product, and a few hundred customers who are working with it in partnership with [PC manufacturers selling] Datacenter," Gambier said.

At the Enterprise 2000 launch in San Francisco, Microsoft also will launch all seven of its enterprise servers: SQL Server 2000, Exchange 2000 Server, Application Center 2000, Host Integration Server 2000, Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000, Commerce Server 2000, and BizTalk Server 2000.