If they don't want to pay a monthly subscription, i'd look at Small Business server from Microsoft. If will give them Exchange, Windows, Sharepoint, SQL, and just about everything you can use. You can buy a Cyberoam firewall to do email filtering and Web Filtering, and be up and running for about 2K.

A ton of schools, like the one I work for. Unfortunately I'm finding that a lot of core functionality is slowly being stripped away. I'm also transitioning several medical practices I work for to Mac. One is almost completely transitioned, and won't need a server at all once it's done (cloud medical software). Another has Mac workstations virtualizing ancient medical software in XP linked to an old Server 2003 box.

The third is the most complex, but will soon begin to transition. For them, we'll virtualize Windows 7 on workstations, as well as virtualize 1 or 2 Windows Servers on a Mac Pro.

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The original advice I was given was that all this virtualization was way too complex and that I was pointlessly pushing for a switch. Turns out things are MUCH more reliable this way. An added bonus is that any issue with the medical SW / Windows can be cured by copying a virgin VM over. Windows is so much nicer when it has a nice stable sandbox to play in. The lack of any clustering capability, hot swap power supplies, rack mounting etc etc.

I look after some creative studios where they still have x-serve's running as file servers with FC-AL arrays attached, but they are now on 'life support' and just used for nearline archive storage which can always be restored from tape if they die, their main file servers are now either Windows or Linux. I also look after small number of kerio installations on mac mini servers, but these are generally being transitioned to windows servers that have considerably better redundancy built into the server, or cloud or Exchange. The mac as a server for anything more than OD (with more than one mac server for availability) and deploy studio is long gone. Apple lost money on the x-serve, even the Intel ones where Intel designed the boards for them. Click to expand.

More likely internal than external servers. Tech companies that have grown up over the last 10-12 years tend to have most of the employees on Macs (e.g, Google, Facebook, etc. If running a 80-90%+ Mac shop then having Windows servers doesn't really make sense. Email, calendaring, etc.

Is typically done on solutions that would run on Linux/Unix/OS X. Standard internet services DNS, etc. Can be done without Windows/Exchange/Active Directory. A mix of Linux and OS X servers would work. For very small companies one OS X server would work.

As company grows, a mix of departmental (OS X) and core services (Linux) would work. Very large scale data centers for huge web traffic like Facebook, Google, Microsoft don't run anybody's servers. Typically custom modules these days for new ones. At best a custom Dell, HP modules in a few cases. There will be small fraction of off-shelf-servers in secondary roles but vendors don't really play there. Click to expand.