Chapter 1. Introducing Windows Small Business Server 2008

Only a few decades ago, all you needed to run your small business were the tools of whatever your business actually was, plus a couple of adding machines, a cash drawer, and some hand-written ledgers. Most of us now would view a business of the 1950s or 1960s as being so quaint as to be positively Dickensian.

Today, even the smallest business needs e-mail and a Web site. Businesses need business applications—spreadsheets, databases, and word processing—that work together. Businesses large and small need to be able to share resources—printers, fax machines, Internet ...

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