thanks
For that size, if I were you, I'd likely take a peek at "System Center
Essentials". It doesn't of course have the flexibility of something like
ConfigMgr that can handle a 300,000 computer company, but for the less than
30 Servers, and less than 500 workstations company (and likely won't grow
beyond that limit), it might be the perfect fit.
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/essentials/en/us/default.aspx
Or, if you have really, really geeky people working there, you can get away
with almost 100% free things--but they have to be fairly geeky to understand
and manage the manually-scripted things that they might need to do with GPOs,
and WSUS, and computer startup scripts for example. If they need something
that's a little more gui-based, SCE might be a better fit.