Messaging is a must have for any business especially today. SBS 2008 provides you messaging with Exchange 2007 which is indeed considered to be the best. It includes much more than just mailing. For example, if you need to access your mail. you can check not only from your desktop's mail client but also from mobile device and even from a ordinary phone. Exchange also provides you an integrated support of antivirus. anti-spam and anti-phishing. eBox also provides you with Postfix for email, but does not provide unified communication like SBS. For anti-spam and anti-virus. eBox integrated with spam assassin and clamAV. Moreover. eBox also has built-in instant messaging tool Jabber for your corporate environment. helping your employees interact and collaborate right from their desk.

for collaboration. SBS 2008 has MS Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 included. which helps in increasing the efficiency and productivity of your organization. It helps in sharing internal document. calenders. manage issues and held discussion even you are away from olJice securely. With its easy-to-use CUI. managing users and deploying access rights to the resources depending upon the designation became easy and fast. Whereas in case of eBox. there is no such feature available similar to SharePoint. but it prQ\lides you with a web server which allows you to share content or file publicly via HTTP or samba. But you can deploy any-open source and free solution like Alfressco as a su bsti tu te to SharePoint on eBox.