Had the Exchange talk this morning. It seems the correct upgrade path is:
1) Windows 2003 in the root domain
2) Windows 2003 in the child domain
3) Exchange 2003

And rumor mill has it that we're having a hard time extorting microsoft donations out of the alumni, so we may end up having to pay for some licenses. Like the exchange licenses. This has some of the upper management people running scared, because, well DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THAT WILL COST?? and such.

If our free MS goes away, we're going to have to look to other free sources of software. Like:
* Groupwise. Free with our Novell licenses
* OpenOffice, should be able to open all of our existing stuff, but not as feature rich macro-wise
* MySQL, since MS-SQL is hella expensive
* Apache-related web-development, on NetWare or Linux