A lot of people wanna use Access or Excel Services with Sharepoint 2010. But this is only possible with Sharepoint Server 2010 Enterprise.

Here a short comparison of the different Sharepoint 2010 Versions and which Service Applications are supported.

Seen on www.sharepoint2010.at

This is a very small line of code to count Sharepoint 2010 Site Collections with Powershell.

(Get-SPSite -Limit all).Count

By the way, we at Genotec AG are offering a Hosted Sharepoint 2010 solution based on Powershell automation.