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Originally Posted by Korbyn
Someone's got to take one for the team 
Actually the only real change in hardware requirements for 2010 so far appear to be for the CAS roles. What I, and a number of the SMB's are looking forward to is to a two server CAS/HT/MBX configuration with a DAG, and have full redundancy with 2 servers instead of 4. |
That's not 100% correct as I am looking at Microsoft's Unified Messaging Architecture for Exchange 2010, which suggest that Exch 2010 is going to be alot more hardware dependant than Exchange 2007 is, 2010 will completely intergrate into your organizations VoIP network were Exchange monitors all the messages coming in and going out of your VoIP network if you choose to go that route but I am sure your little SMB companies will want to once Office 2010 comes out! It's going to require a lot of processing power, RAM, and hard drives (RAID stacks) to manage it plus you will probably have to invest in TB's of offline storage for backing up the stores for at least 7 years (according to the law in Canada now).
Microsoft® Silverlight® Snack Player (This is the URL I just viewing the UMA for Exchange 2010)
Believe me it won't be cheap! :o)