Justin,

> > I think this will be of great interest to a lot of people as 
> > the combination of e-smith, hylafax and the outlook connecter 
> > is very, very close to M$ SBS2000.
> 
> Well - the development team would first have to find a way to restrict
> the licensing, then find a way to make sure it wasn't upgradeable to
> newer versions. Then they would need to bloat the software to a point
> that it would require more than one server to run on thereby defeating
> the purpose of an all in one box. Then they would need to drop support
> for half the modules to make sure it only ran on "supported" hardware.
> From there I would probably recommend they cripple the core
> functionality to a point that it is barely usable. Then all they would
> have to do is charge ~$2000.00 for each and every copy of the software.

Thanks for the great laugh!  Having spent 3 years in the late 90's 
teaching Microsoft technologies and specifically Exchange Server and
SBS, you are *extremely* accurate!  :-)

Dan

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