Between this lukewarm review of Small Business Server 2008 and the fact that it was conspicuously absent from the 2008 TechEd conference, it's hard not to wonder what Microsoft really wants with this product. It could be a vehicle Microsoft is using to appease its channel, now that way-to-low-to-make-a-living pricing for its online services has been revealed. (See Mitchell Ashley's blog post: S+S:The Kobayashi Maru of Microsoft) However, if you've used and mastered the previous SBS, based on Windows Server 2003, and you want to upgrade hardware and clients to WS2008/Vista, then seems as if SBS 2008 will still be a good bet for you. The price isn't as low as it once was, but the integrated management is what the package is all about.
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SBS2008
For SQL backbone access, SBS is still a steal for cost (unless you can get away with free SQL options).Sharepoint is still an ugly duckling but given a chance it can change the way servers are used from being good filing cabinets.As a Microsoft VAR we have never seen customers install their own server no matter how good the wizard- they don't have the time and its not their real job. With Backup software for SBS costing so little, its not a stumbling block versus the loss of data which = business crash.Onenote etc is just trailware and is just bloatware and should be an option. 4GB RAM may seem alot but with RAM prices so low, it makes a big difference vs unrealistic RAM requirements for SBS03. Would like to have seen Hyper_V given more than a passing reference and letting customers find it like sharepoint was originally.
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