Catrinescu said that earlier SharePoint Server products, such as SharePoint Server 2010, had "traditional topologies" with two server roles, a front-end server and an application server.

The SharePoint Data Zoom Web Part is a free tool, while the SharePoint Data Zoom Extensions for Microsoft SQL Server Context cost US$ 495 per front-end server.

We've been focused on learning about the upcoming versions of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010. But Microsoft also has another product just out as a CTP (community technology preview) -- SQL Server ...

Splitting up the SharePoint 2007 software from the SQL dbs also allows much more flexibility of design for the SharePoint front-end web server (s), and “application” server (s).

1. Database server 2. Indexing server 3. Web front-end server I'm assuming this is for performance, but I'm foggy on a few things: ...