From eWeek (via Taz):

The new Windows Server SKU—called, at least for now, Windows Midmarket Server, or MMS—is not soup yet. But Microsoft executives have a good idea about how they plan to reach the midmarket sweet spot, which Microsoft identifies as users with 50 to 250 PCs.

As does Windows Small Business Server, the MMS product will bundle together a number of different Microsoft server products into a single deliverable. Exchange Server and SharePoint are expected to be part of MMS, sources close to Microsoft said.

This an exciting announcement for those in SBSland - hopefully many of the common complaints: only one (SBS) server per domain, only one domain in the forest, etc. will be solved and used as the differentiator in this new offering.  It sounds like a second product that the SBS consultants can start marketing to new, formerly unreachable, customers - while providing an upsell opportunity to current clients that are outgrowing their current SBS solution.

Orlando Ayala (Sr. VP, MS SMB group) has stated, "In the next six months, we'll [Microsoft'll] roll out something very clear.”  Sounds like Q3 will be a good time to get some marketing/research time in place - especially if MS decides to ramp up the opportunities given to their partners like they did for SBS 2003.

- G