Thanks Chris, that gives me some info to get started on. I need to go to management with a plan and funding requirements.

Thanks, Brad
 The latest version of SBS at present is 2003, however as I indicated in my other posting...SBS 2008 will be out sometime late this year

 It wouldn't make much sense to upgrade to 03 now in my opinion and then in 6 months you'd be looking at upgrading again if you wanted the latest version of Exchange (2007)

 Exchange 2007 will only run on 64 bit hardware, therefore SBS 2008 will require 64 bit server hardware.

 There will be NO inplace upgrade from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008

 Current Exchange 2003 DB limits are 75GB, they will be higher in Exchange 2007.

 You could never upgrade to the retail versions of Windows Server 2008, Exchange Server 2007 and all the CALs for what you'll be able to upgrade to SBS 2008 later this year.  Exact costs are not published yet but most likely you could Get SBS 2008 Standard for far under 1k plus your new server hardware.

 If you look at upgrading to SBS 2003 now and you want to keep ISA you are probably looking around 1200.00 and most likely you'll need new hardware to put it on.

 If you need more...just ask

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   "Brad Pears" <bradp@truenorthloghomes.com> wrote in message news:OP1WRhjfIHA.2268@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
   We are looking at upgrading our Small Bus server from 2000 to the most
   recent version which I think is still 2003 correct? The issue we are
   currently facing is that I am wondering if I should just ditch SBS 2000
   completley and go with the purchase of stand alone products (i.e. separate
   Server (domain controller) , separate SQL Server, separate Exchange server)
   and leave SBS as it is or to upgrade our current SBS 2000 to SBS 2003. I am
   thinking it will most likley be the cheapest and easiest for us to upgrade
   from SBS 2000 to SBS 2003 (or later) - however, we really only want the
   newer versions of Exchange and SQL server - specifically Exchange at this
   point - and it might be nice to move right up to Exchange 2008 instead of
   stopping at 2003. However, that may also entail some hardware upgrades (or
   new server to purchase) if we do that...

   Does anyone have any idea on cost to upgrade from SBS 2000 to SBS 2003 to do
   something like this and maybe some technical details of SBS 2003 ie. # of
   concurrent users, max email database size (Exchange 2000 is 16gb - which we
   have already hit before)? I suspect this type of an upgrade will most likely
   be quite a job. Does anyone have any information to offer on this type of a
   venture?

   Thanks, Brad