That's the key these days in IT.Cost savings,leveraging on existing investment is really important and Microsoft understands this.Windows sharepoint services 3.0(WSS 3.0) is free if you have windows server 2003 edition.Windows sharepoint services 3.0 needs SQL and if you wish to save SQL server licence cost you can go for SQL server express edition which comes inbuilt with WSS 3.0 installer.
But obvious WSS 3.0+SQL server express combination has limited set of features as compared to its Paid counterpart,MOSS(Microsoft Office sharepoint server )2007.
MOSS comes in standard and enterprise editions.This is beautifully represented in following diagram
This diagram guides at high level what to choose depending on what feature and functionality you want in organisation.The very details of comparison are available in excel at
Sharepoint Editions Comparison Sheet .Keep this excel handy.Finally I want to tell you all that all the images used in this blog are not mine and wherever possible I have mentioned references but some image\digram references I could not find like the above one.Sorry and thanks to creators of images like above
Now SharePoint 2013 has been released in the market. And it's Foundation 2013 version is available free of cost with www.cloudappsportal.com. You also get free themes, templates and apps to use and experiment with.
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