Oh, You Wanted "Awesome" Edition  July 1, 2009  We recently
upgraded our database server to 48 GB of memory -- because
hardware is cheap, and programmers are expensive.  Imagine our
surprise, then, when we rebooted the server and saw only 32 GB
of memory available in Windows Server 2008. Did we install the
memory wrong? No, the BIOS screen reported the full 48 GB of
memory. In fact, the system information applet even reports 48
GB of memory:   But there's only 32 GB of usable memory in the
system, somehow.   Did you feel that? A great disturbance in the
Force, as if 17 billion bytes simultaneously cried out in terror
and were suddenly silenced. It's so profoundly sad.  That's when
I began to suspect the real culprit: weasels.   No. Not the cute
weasels. I'm referring to angry, evil marketing weasels.
That's more like it. Those marketing weasels are vicious.  We
belatedly discovered post-upgrade that we are foolishly using
Windows Server 2008 Standard edition. Which has been arbitrarily
limited to 32 GB of m