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Windows 2k vs. Sun Solaris 8 / Free BSD hardware requirements

I am looking for some recommended hardware requirements to set up a mail server for a small company 100 - 250 users. We will probably stick with a Windows solution but I need to provide several alternatives for cost justification purposes. have found the minimum requirements to install the OS but I need recommendations that are not a push to sell more hardware. All the sales reps I have spoke with want to sell the latest hardware they have. Any links to useful sites would be helpful.

OS packages
Windows 2K
Sun Solaris 8
Free BSD 4.7

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OliWarner

Yeah, you're asking for something that you'll just not find: a Justification for microsoft.

Everything about windows is bloated to keep hardware demand up - Talk to anybody that's reverse engineered a microsoft application and they'll tell you how useless their "code re-use" is.

I know you, as millions of others in the world, are affraid and unfamilliar with *nix environments but see it this way.
Your company could use the money its saving on its mailservers to train you up in everything *nix with the next refit meaning they can switch their backend completely to open-source software saving them even more.

And at the end of the day there are a billion and one linux experts on here who you can ask for help from ;)