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Yeah, but you're not a large corporation. Exchange does all kinds of crazy shit that's nice to have in a very large environment. Calendaring, extreme scalability, integration with other systems, mobile messaging integration, spam filtering, encryption support, voicemail integration, auditing compliance. etc... and etc... and etc...

Exchange does a _whole_ lot of shit and integrates with other products that do a whole lot of other shit.

So if you have 50 employees and 40 computers, Exchange might be overkill. If you have 40,000 employees, it might be exactly what you need.

Exchange isnt even overkill for 5 users. If it was SBS wouldnt exist. There is no MTA that is even comparable or as easy to set up. That being said the world of an Email admin is entirely diffrent to pressing next next next on a wizard. There are very few SME's out there running dovecot/fetchmail/sendmail or Citadel Zimbra or Axigen over Exchange. The reason for this is support and ease of use. Its all well and good using OSS products but if your not up to speed on them nor have the skills in house its a nightmare. There is nothing wonderful about configuring .cf files manually or even recompiling Webmin to make your life easier.Exchange does an absolute excellent job and is by far the most versatile MTA out there. Wether 2010 is required just yet is debatable as there are massive diffrences between 2003 R2 and 2007. 2007 is the most complete MS MTA to date. Its a marvelous product that requires very little in the way of 3rd party bolt ons. Wether geeks here want to admit it everything has its place. MS may seem an expensive alternative but good consultancy ensures the company has the right product at the right price and with the right support and skills to manage it.