Thanks Ven, looks like Standard 2008 does the same.

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/editions-compare.aspx

Coming in at approx $5000/ea processor license. For kicks, estimate this project would cost:

2 x Servers @ $7000

1 x SAN...

The article seemed to lack software requirements for a MSSQL cluster. We operate different versions of MSSQL, from what I've read only SQL Enterprise supports clustering. With that said, there's...