Hopefully most people know that Moss is a superset of WSS. In other words, MOSS has the foundation laid by WSS v3.0 and expands, creating functions that sit above it, use the basic framework of WSS, and extending it's good for the initiatives of large enterprise deployments and portal scenarios. The following is a list of things that MOSS not WSS v3.0. I thought it would be a waste of text to display the characteristics that the two have in common, or places that are reused nonvascular plants WSS practicality without change or improvement.
Social Networking
MOSS provides social networking features, including social networking Web Parts and profile link. MOSS allows linkage between colleagues and partners to identify the hierarchical relationships. These relationships can be published on my web pages and went through his personal profile which appears on a site / web part.
Site Directory
MOSS provides a new model site called "Site Directory. When you generate your first portal of moss, which comes with a directory of sites. This site template is designed specifically for tracking links to sites, displaying site maps and lists for site navigation and search through the site directory. With a web directory on the website, you are asked if you need to post a link to your site again each time you create a new web portal, regardless of their depth in the hierarchy. This unique feature is, in my opinion, absolutely necessary for any deployment of SharePoint intranet. And yes, that means that I think Moss is a prerequisite for any real Intranet deployment of SharePoint on any kind of significant scale.
Site Manager
MOSS provides for an easy drag-and-drop interface for managing navigation bars, navigation strips, portal hierarchy information, & much more. In general, managing sites, site hierarchies, & hierchical site content is much less hard (& in some cases basically made possible) with MOSS.
Knowledge Network / People Search
MOSS provides a greater "people search" tool that can be used to treat mine hidden relationship data and show the people related to knowledge. For example, if my name is splashed across dozens of websites that contain C #-related content, the idea is that the moss will show you my name and profile in response to the search for people related to C #, and I suggest as a local expert.
Business Data Catalog / Business Data Search
I think this is possibly three of the most important features of MOSS. Allows you to extend SharePoint data by integrating business data from external sources, such as Web Services or Relational Databases. This allows you to do things like display SAP data within your SharePoint portal, or add a column to a requirements document stored in SharePoint that points to data stored on a device management requirements in other parts of your business. The possibilities of the BDC are limitless, and I think each and every one of SharePoint 2007 developer needs to learn these things
Excel Services
MOSS offers the possibility, through shared service facilities, to have what amounts to an Excel server. This provides the ability to display the contents of the Excel spreadsheet Web Part, and selectively allow editing of secured regions of that spreadsheet, including evaluation of the formulas contained in the leaf and the results are displayed in real time. There is also a user interface, less version of this where you can access a stored central spreadsheet via web services, creating a "session", and programmatically feed data into the sheet and get formula to calculate the values of the sheet - all without interfering with other people using the same spreadsheet from a central location. The impact for companies that do nothing at all with Excel is enormous.
In short, Moss is a great advantage. I'm not talking about the prices, because the impact of dollars and cents in a business decision to implement a particular technology is always specific to industry and individual enterprise. But I will say this: prices aside, it would be very, very sure of your needs (or lack thereof) to circumvent the minimum standards and just use WSS v3.0.
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