I put this together for a friend of mine. I'm not a rep for MS and I don't promise this is without errors. If you have any questions or want further information check MS's site. This of course doesn't take into consideration upgrades, student editions, volume licensing, warez, or selling your soul. Just help you remember the "free as beer" part of the equation. After reading, think to yourself "I love open source."
Retail Prices form Microsoft's Site: **************************** Windows: **************************** $199 - Windows XP Home $299 - Windows XP Pro $1,199 - Windows Server 2000 (up to 10 clients) $3,999 - Windows Advanced Server 2000 (up to 25 clients) BackOffice Server is no longer made. The replacement is: **************************** Small Business Server Plus: **************************** $1,499 $299 - (add 5 clients) $999 - (add 20 clients) It only supports 50 clients. (NOTE: These prices are not for an OS for each of the clients. This only lets you access the server.) Includes: Windows 2000 server Internet Information Server Exchange Server Internet Security & Acceleration Server SQL Server Shared Fax and modem Server . The caveat is that you have to have all of these servers on one system (1 domain & 1 server solution) and that you can only have up to 50 clients all of which you pay for as shown above. If you don't want to have a "1 server" solution then you can buy the servers separately. ALL of these still require that you first buy a version of Windows Server to run them on. **************************** SQL Server: **************************** CPU Based Price (basically as many users you want on your LAN or the internet) OR $4,399 - Standard SQL Server PER CPU $11,099 - Enterprise SQL Server PER CPU Number of Clients (use only inside your organization hosted on as many CPUs as you want) $1,499 - 5 Clients $11,099 - Enterprise 25 Clients **************************** Host Integration Server: **************************** $2,499 - PER CPU **************************** Internet Security & Acceleration Server: **************************** $1,499 - PER CPU $5,999 - PER CPU **************************** Internet Information Server: **************************** Comes with Windows 2000 Server? **************************** Office XP **************************** $479 Standard $579 Professional Love, Gabriel G. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
