Perhaps the Segment Brackets are a little askew
I thought I had a good handle on what Server to sell to what sized customer until I got this flyer in my action pack, so why do I care?
SBS 2003 R2 seems to be the perfect package for 5 to 60 Users, I even have some 2 User clients using this and they don’t blink about the investment.
So now we are in the Windows 2008 Era and we have a different set of brackets and I thought they were well defined even though I thought they might not be priced adequately so here is my understanding:
- Home Server: 1-10 Users
- Foundations Server 2008: 1-15 Users
- SBS 2008: 1-75 Users
- EBS 2008: 50 – 300 Users
- Windows Server 2008 with Full Server Products: 300 Users ----> Really Big Numbers
Microsoft published sizing as above:
- Home Server: Consumer
- SBS 2008: 1-10 Users
- EBS 2008: 11-249 Users
- Windows Server 2008: 1 User ----> Really Big Numbers
What am I thinking?
- Home Server = SOHO Server: 1 – 10 Users
- Home Server = SMB Backup Server: in Groups of 1 per 10 Workstations
- SBS 2008: (8) 11 – 60 Users
- EBS 2008: 50 – 300 Users
- Windows Server 2008 with Full Server Products: 280 Users ----> Really Big Numbers
AND no I don’t know where the Microsoft Numbers came from but I did think What The????
This blog is a precursor to the follow up posts about solutions as I’m getting all excited again