" You said a PE 840, right?  You can prolly upgrade to a new server for well 
under $2K, not including labor, if you keep the same software."

True, but as they're on SBS 2003 I don't really want to move them to new 
hardware with an old OS. If it was 2008 R2-level then yeah, but I think it 
makes sense at this time to move them forward.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 8:22 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: What would YOU do?

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:40 AM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote:
> This hardware was pretty inexpensive at just under $600, the quote I 
> gave them earlier this year for a new server was $7500 soup to nuts 
> (new server, SBS 2011, etc). IIRC the SBS software was almost as much as the 
> physical box.

  In my experience, the software costs *much* more than the server.
You said a PE 840, right?  You can prolly upgrade to a new server for well 
under $2K, not including labor, if you keep the same software.

-- Ben

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