> Correct but I was only thinking of the sever licenses. I am in an EDU
> environment where CALs are "free" under our agreement with Microsoft so I > frequeny forget about this and you caught me in a senior moment. :) No problem. I just wanted to clear that up because in our situation we actually did save money on OS licenses by virtualizing and we used VMware. To the OP: Check out these calculators to figure out what might be best for your own environment: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/howtobuy/licensing/calculator.msp x It says it's for 2003 but it applies to 2008 as well. - Andy O. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~