To Setup Exchange or not to Setup Exchange...That is the Question...

Alright, I'm looking for opinions here.

Company - I'm working for a company with about 150 employees. 100
employees are using desktops in a corporate office, while 50 of them
are sales guys. Growth potential is quite large; we added 10 people
to the sales force yesterday.

Email - Currenlty we're using webmail.us to host our email. Basically
we have emailed popped to us into Outlook 2003. We have an Exchange
2003 Standard server setup. We don't really utilize it execpt for a
few public calendars.

Goal - My first project is to get everyone's computer into AD (yeah,
they're in workgroups...ugh). After that, we need to make a decission
about our email setup. We want everyone to have their own personal
calendars. We would like to have the ability to send emails to phones
(I know, we need Win Mobile 5 or better...does anyone have any
comments about this feature?) There is also a third party app with an
Exchange connecter that we would like to be able to use (integrates
it's client info with exchange).

My Thinking - I'm thinking this is a point were we can really set it
up right, but I'm not sure if the cost would be justifiable. I'd love
to setup an ISA server, have a frontend server sitting behind it, and
then of course a backend server. No SAN or NAS, so I'd probably setup
a fiber attached bucket of drives or something.

What are your thoughts? Should our setup be this elaborate? Do you
recommend any exchange hosting services out there? We would definitly
look at hosting out our Antispam and virus because we don't have the
bandwidth necessary to take care of all that ourselves. Any thoughts/
opinions would be appreciated!

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