Originally posted here by RoadClosed
If they don't want to share calendars and tasks and crap then there isn't a reason to spend money on exhcange unless they want to do the above or integrate office. I asked how many users because if you are under 50 you can get Small Business Server with Exchange, domain security,web server etc. for a decent price of what an enterprise based linux server will run.

Its a pretty kick ass deal for small windows based offices.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...s/default.mspx

MS has really come down on pricing, I almost bought it the other day for the heck of it.

Here is a resource, you will have to note the pros and cons compared to your environment.

http://www.smallbizserver.net/

The problem I came across with small business server is the CALS are so damn expensive in comparison to Server 2003. I was going to have it set as my main domain server, but the cost for CALS per user; per device or per server was just too high. It was much cheaper for me to get Server2003. I do want to use Exchange though and have been looking into SBS. Now that I have a domian controller, I could add SBS on the network and only purchase CALs for the workstations actually using it's services.