Looking for small scale Exchange hosting or other alternatives

[Retro2001]

I do some small-scale consulting for a local business (3 employees) that has the following needs from an email / PIM program:

[*]Ability to sync to Palm
[*]Ability for each employee to access the calender and contacts of the other two
[*]Ability to access email / contacts / (less important) calender via web
[*]Ability to handle elegantly large volume of contacts (~1000) and archived emails

The perfect solution would be, I think, some kind of managed Exchange server hosting, but I've not been able to track down any companies that offer solutions with this small a scale in mind, and the larger scale ones I've found have been very costly. They are currently using phpGroupware / Outlook / Palm for their needs, but phpGroupware doesn't sync or import contacts or calender events elegantly from Outlook. Any ideas would be welcome.

Peace,
will

 

[jmgonzalez]

look at http://www.desknow.com

I have a client who is the same amount of employees, and a nice Dell server with Server 2003/Exchange 2003 is too much.

This product looks like it'll do the majority of features that Exchange has, but at a much cheaper cost.

I'll probably download the free version and play around with it a bit to see if it can handle my client's needs.

 

[vi edit]

You can pick up small business server w/ exchange for ~$400'ish. Throw it on a little Poweredge SC server that you can get for under $600. Hosting could be done at one of the locations over a DSL line really.