Why window 2000 is preffered for servers and domain controller and window xp is preffered in client?

Question

what are the main advantages for using window 2000 in servers and window xp for client

Answer 1

bocoz it has Active direcory and some tools specific to handling Networking  

Answer 2

The reason is simple windows 2000/2003/2008 are the servers and xp is the client o.s not server o.s it doesnt hav the dsa.msc which makes it A domain controller though the Group policy objects looks similar also the linitations  of hardware there xp support on 4gb of ram however windows server 2003 can have 34gb of ram lots of differences that make them different to each others

i hope this help you vikas