Microsoft targets midsize businesses

Interesting twist on the success of Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 which is for companies with less than 50 users.

Microsoft targets midsize businesses

By John Fontana Network World, 07/11/05

Microsoft last week put together a bundle of servers designed to help midsize companies replace aging software with a more secure and manageable infrastructure.

The company is bundling Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition, Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 Workgroup Edition and three copies of Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition into a single product. The offering signals Microsoft's intent to tailor its software for midsize companies, a segment of the corporate market that rival IBM is attacking but Microsoft has yet to serve specifically.

The new bundle is aimed at companies with more than 50 users that are growing, have small IT staffs, need to support branch offices and typically have aging systems such as Windows NT and Exchange 5.5 that Microsoft no longer supports. The bundle also is designed to run across three servers to create a core infrastructure with room to expand.
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