Commerce Server 2007 Editions
For the latest version of Commerce Server 2007 Help, see the Microsoft Web site.
Commerce Server 2007 is available in three editions: Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, and Developer Edition. The Developer Edition includes the same features as the Enterprise Edition and is available for evaluation purposes.
Commerce Server 2007 supports the following upgrade paths:
Standard Edition to Enterprise Edition
Developer Edition to Enterprise Edition
The following table describes the three Commerce Server 2007 editions and their scaling limitations. The terms that are used in the first column are defined in the next section.
Feature |
Enterprise Edition (32-bit and 64-bit) |
Standard Edition (32-bit and 64-bit) |
Developer Edition (32-bit and 64-bit) |
|---|---|---|---|
Data Warehouse and Analytics |
Included |
Not included |
Included No support for Data Warehouse and Staging on Windows XP; only on Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 |
Commerce Server Staging System |
Included |
Not included |
Included |
Commerce Server sites per computer |
Unlimited |
10 |
2 |
Commerce Server applications per commerce site |
Unlimited |
1 |
Unlimited |
Commerce Server sites per Commerce Server global resource |
Unlimited (bound only by hardware or IIS limits) |
10 |
Unlimited (bound only by hardware or IIS limits) |
Physical servers per commerce site |
Unlimited |
2 |
2 |
Physical processors (can be hyper-threaded or dual-core processors) |
Unlimited |
2 |
2 |
Web servers per Commerce Server site or Web farm |
Unlimited |
2 |
2 |
Upgrade path |
Not applicable |
Can upgrade to Enterprise Edition only |
Can upgrade to Enterprise Edition only |
Commerce Server Deployment Concepts and Terms
A Commerce Server application is a logical representation of an application in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS); it appears in both the Commerce Server Manager and IIS console trees. In the IIS console tree, an application is either at the root directory level of the Web site or at a subdirectory level of the Web site. Web services do not count as Commerce Server applications for license purposes.
A Commerce Server site includes a collection of site resources and ASP.NET-based applications that use these resources through the Commerce Server object model. With a Commerce Server site, you can administer the applications in the site as a group. Note that a Commerce Server site does not map to the concept of a Web site in IIS.
A Commerce Server resource is an entity that provides functionality to the applications in a Commerce Server site and that contains properties that you can configure through the Commerce Server Microsoft Management Console (MMC). Resources are either site resources or global resources. You can share global resources across Commerce Server sites. You cannot share site resources across Commerce Server sites. The Data Warehouse resource is an example of a global resource, whereas the Product Catalog resource is an example of a site resource.
A Commerce Server deployment includes one or more physical installations of Commerce Server 2007 directed to or sharing a single Commerce Server 2007 Administration database, the MSCS_Admin database. All Commerce Server sites that share a common MSCS_Admin database make up a single Commerce Server deployment.
In Commerce Server, a Web server is a computer on which IIS version 6.0 is installed. The Web server contains the virtual directories, files, and subfolders for a Commerce site. A Commerce Server deployment can have multiple Web servers that together form a Web farm.
A Web site is an IIS Web site running on a specific TCP port number. Examples are "Default Web Site" or "Administration Web site". By default, you install these sites with IIS 6.0.