Between this lukewarm review of Small Business Server 2008 and the fact that it was conspicuously absent from the 2008 TechEd conference, it's hard not to wonder what Microsoft really wants with this product. It could be a vehicle Microsoft is using to appease its channel, now that way-to-low-to-make-a-living pricing for its online services has been revealed. (See Mitchell Ashley's blog post: S+S:The Kobayashi Maru of Microsoft) However, if you've used and mastered the previous SBS, based on Windows Server 2003, and you want to upgrade hardware and clients to WS2008/Vista, then seems as if SBS 2008 will still be a good bet for you. The price isn't as low as it once was, but the integrated management is what the package is all about.

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