Windows 2003 and windows 2008 for applications server

hi all.
i want to know about windows that which one is better for application server 10 R2.
which one is better windows server 2003 or windows 2008?
please if anyone knows about the difference and about the performance please help me out thanks.
Any suggestion?
sarah

Well, Sarah, I have used both and I would recommend that Win2K3 is better, not because any fault of the iAS from Oracle but due to some quirks of the Win2K8. There are many updates available for the Win 2003 and it is well patched. To be honest, I have been using Oracle iAS for the last 5 or so years and seriously think that it is not that great product from Oracle and when combined with Windows OS, it really sucks. I have, that is why shifted my iAS to Linux and one to Solaris.
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I am now using IBM server with windows 2003 32 bit operating system and clients are windows xp and windows 7. I want to know that if I convert all clients to windows 7. Is there any connectivity/accessing issues to server.
Is there any compability / accessing issues within windows 2003 and windows 7?
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Hello,
Windows Server 2003 is going out of support 2015.
Windows 7 works together with it without problems.
If this is a domain you have to be aware that GPO settings for Windows 7 should be configured from a Windows 7 machine with RSAT installed, otherwise lot of settings are not available within Windows Server 2003.
Also you have to think about server stored profiles, if used, as the .V2 profiles are used with Windows 7 and the older profiles will not work for users logging on to the Windows 7 machines.
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Windows 2003 and windows 2008 for forms

hi all.
i want to know about windows that which one is better for forms server.
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sarah

hi
Thanks for reply but i think forms forum are still alive and i do not think so if anyone reply me in a sec in other forum.Anyways thinks for suggestions.
well i want to install forms R2 in windows server 2008 but do not know about the performance may be there will be bugs?
i was thinking may be it will be like windows vista or windows 7 because some softeware is not supportable with windows 7 and with windows vista...
any suggestion?
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Appending Tiff files works on Windows 7 and Windows 2012 but doesn't work on Windows 2003 and Windows 2008

Please help me! The code below creates perfect output file son windows 7 and 2012 but on windows 2008 and win 2003 the generated images are corrupted without generating any exception during the process.
Both win 2008 and win 2003 are up to date. What do I have to install? Some hotfix? Please help me I'm stuck.
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try
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new System.Drawing.Imaging.EncoderParameter(System.Drawing.Imaging.Encoder.SaveFlag, (long)System.Drawing.Imaging.EncoderValue.MultiFrame);
encoderParams.Param[0] = compressionEncodeParam;
encoderParams.Param[1] = saveEncodeParam;
int numberOfPages = getNumberOfPages(tiff1inputFilePath);
MemoryStream byteStream;
imageStreamSource = new FileStream(tiff1inputFilePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read);
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outputBitmap.SaveAdd(tmpOutputBitmap, encoderParams);
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imageStreamSource.Close();
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sourceBitmap.Save(byteStream, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Tiff);
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finally
imageStreamSource.Close();
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I solved the problem. The following code works also on 2003 and 2008.
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compressionEncodeParam = new EncoderParameter(compressionEncoder, (long)EncoderValue.CompressionLZW);
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encoderParams.Param[1] = saveEncodeParam;
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Remote desktop connection limit in windows 2003 administration as well as in the mixed environment of windows 2003 and 2008 servers

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