I have to admit to actually enjoying o365 admin but I will be configuring a zentyal vm in the next 8 weeks or so in my homelab.
Reasonably alternatives to Exchange/Server2012/Sharepoint?
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The hardware's definitely not a fixed cost either way . I run several virtual machines and generally the linux ones run on about 1/4 of the resources of the windows ones. If everything was on windows I'd need a few more servers. I'd also need separate licenses for each virtualisation.
Licenses isn't a hardware discussion. So that's moot.
The hardware, you're not going to buy 1/4 the hardware if you go Linux, you're almost certainly going to buy the same hardware, but perhaps get more out of it. In any event, an "average" server, the cost to go from say 64GB to 128GB as a host, is 'marginal' in the grand scheme of all this, especially when factored over 3 years.
Also, this solution if I recall was for 5-10 users. While Linux solutions will certainly run on less, there comes a point where there is a "minimum" size. An Exchange solution for that number of users, is going to run just fine on your average laptop, as long as it has an SSD. So to say that it would require 4x the hardware, is absurd. It's going to take maybe 2-4 cores and 8-12GB of RAM of a host, and that's if you're being generous.
Thus, the hardware cost can be assumed to be a wash.
The hardware, you're not going to buy 1/4 the hardware if you go Linux, you're almost certainly going to buy the same hardware, but perhaps get more out of it. In any event, an "average" server, the cost to go from say 64GB to 128GB as a host, is 'marginal' in the grand scheme of all this, especially when factored over 3 years.
Also, this solution if I recall was for 5-10 users. While Linux solutions will certainly run on less, there comes a point where there is a "minimum" size. An Exchange solution for that number of users, is going to run just fine on your average laptop, as long as it has an SSD. So to say that it would require 4x the hardware, is absurd. It's going to take maybe 2-4 cores and 8-12GB of RAM of a host, and that's if you're being generous.
Thus, the hardware cost can be assumed to be a wash.