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DEFINITION: 1) An enterprise server is a computer containing programs that collectively serve the needs of an enterprise rather than a single user, department, or specialized application. Historically, mainframe-sized computers have been enterprise servers although they were not referred to as servers until recently. As smaller, usually UNIX-based servers and Wintel computers have become faster and have been  … 
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SERVER HARDWARE DEFINITION (continued): …  provided with enterprise-wide program management capabilities, they also been referred to as enterprise servers. In this usage, an enterprise server is both the computer hardware and its main software, the operating system. Examples are Sun Microsystems' computers with their UNIX-based Solaris or Linux systems, Hewlett-Packard (HP) systems, the upper end of Windows 2000 systems, and IBM's iSeries systems (the largest of which is the zSeries 900 -formerly called the S/390). 2) Some companies use enterprise server to describe a "superprogram" that runs under the operating system in a computer … 
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