As of April 1, 2009, this server will no longer be available for purchase. When the next version of Microsoft Office is released, the Monitoring and Analytics capabilities will be included with SharePoint Server Enterprise. Microsoft will continue to support PerformancePoint, including “Service Pack 3” later this year.
Microsoft has unveiled changes to the company’s business intelligence strategy, including the consolidation of capabilities found within Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Enterprise and now branding them as PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint.
Basically, what this means is that Performance Point is becoming a part of Office SharePoint Server (Enterprise Edition). All SharePoint users that access that functionality will need enterprise CALs. Also, noting that this will be imminent in the next release of Office, you may now think of the the Office SharePoint Server being the Office Server counterpart to your familiar Office desktop applications.
Here's a nice little article on some Microsoft Business Intelligence choices from a CRM perspective, but which could be applied more generally too.
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