The FreeBSD project has recently pushed the first release of the new 8.x branch (you can also check the press release). This release is poised to set new standards for the project's evolution (as all dot zero releases are supposed to) by adding new features like network stack virtualization (vimage), Xen Dom-U support, multiple BSS instances for wireless, hierarchical jails, etc.

For business users I think the most important features may be the following:

• ZFS support updated to version 13 (which adds support for separate "cache" disks and L2ARC) and officially labeled as production state (although problems may still arise on low-memory i386 systems)
• Xen-DomU support may open the door for usage of FreeBSD in the much hyped cloud services, e.g. Amazon EC2
• endorsement of TrustedBSD MAC framework into the default GENERIC kernel
• the various improvements in the network stack

Now we only need to let the dust settle a bit on this new release (perhaps even reaching for an early .1 release) in order to have the major bugs ironed out -- even though the betas and release candidates have been available to the public the real widespread testing/usage still occurs after the release is out. Already some security advisories (SSL, rtld, freebsd-updates) have "bumped" the current revision to 8.0-RELEASE-p1.

We consider that the timing for the EnterpriseBSD is just right, starting off with a new branch release and giving it some time to mature, until a first EnterpriseBSD release is ready for public testing (or tasting, if you want ;) ).