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Originally Posted by Barnes

The Mini takes up a quarter of the space the 1u xServe did, it's silent, cheep as borscht and apple has these:

http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/t...ogy/xgrid.html

http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/

http://www.apple.com/xsan/

And more than just those technologies, you get directory services (like AD in Windows), file&print sharing, web serving (Apache), built in Wiki engine (think Sharepoint), DNS/DHCP services, etc. It's a very complete server OS offering.

It's cost competitive with Windows Home Server offerings, but brings all the services a SMB office would require, with unlimited client licenses to boot.

Throw in hosted Exchange and maybe online backup via Mozy, and you have a very compelling little server package for SMB offices.