Purchasing SQL Server 2005

I have been tasked with determining which edition of SQL server 2005 to purchase for my business.

We currently have SQL server 2005 Enterprise Edition, although due to the spec of our laptops (operating system) we cannot install the full version of this on our laptops (2gb database capped limit)

The laptop specification is:
1.66 Ghz Intel Centrino Duo
1 Gb Ram
60 Gb HDD
Microsoft Windows XP Profressional Version 2002, SP2 (64 bit?)

I believe the Standard Edition will enable us to have an uncapped SQL Server 2005 database limit on the laptops.

Alternatively, please could anybody advise which edition should be purchased

Many thanks

You haven't mentioned about what kind of business you have and wanted to use SQL Server.

I believe you can look into Workgroup edition or SQLExpress of SQL and still I would like to know the size of userbase & database.

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I am an Analyst and I need to analyse 5gb + of financial data.

Would Standard edition or Developer edition not suffice?

|||Then Standard edition should do the job, to handle the application.